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Federal (USV)

Private

George Meyers

(? - 1862)

Home State: New Jersey

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th New Jersey Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted on 5 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th New Jersey Infantry on 25 August.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862

by a soldier, in the rear rank, who neglected to remove his tompion. The missile penetrated his chest from the back and fractured the eleventh rib.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a field hospital and sent to Baltimore by train the next day, then on to Philadelphia. He was admitted to the South Street Hospital in Philadelphia on 26 September "in a state of great prostration, with the symptoms of traumatic pleuro-pneumonia and dyspnoea" (difficulty breathing). He died there on 15 (or 26) October 1862. An autopsy found the cap/button of the tompion embedded in his right lung [illustration].

References & notes

His service from Toombs1 and the Record.2 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,3 which has his wounding on Bolivar Heights, VA on 17 September. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

10/15/1862; Philadelphia, PA; burial in Philadelphia National Cemetery, West Oak Lane, Philadelphia County, PA

Notes

1   Toombs, Samuel, Reminiscences of the War ... the Thirteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, Orange (NJ): The (Orange) Journal, 1878, pp. 21 - 22  [AotW citation 7842]

2   State of New Jersey, Adjutant-General's Office, and William Scudder Stryker, Adjutant General, Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Trenton: John L. Murphy, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1876, Vol. 1, p. 639  [AotW citation 7881]

3   Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 586  [AotW citation 31536]