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(1826 - 1875)
Home State: New Jersey
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th New Jersey Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 34 year old hatter in Orange, NJ. He enlisted on 20 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 13th New Jersey Infantry on 25 August.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot which "chipped off a portion of the exterior lamina of the left temporal [skull] bone, and lodged behind the ramus of the lower jaw" in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the South Street Hospital in Philadelphia on 24 September and the bullet was removed on the 26th. His wound healed and he was returned to duty on 22 December 1862. He was later discharged for disability at the US Army General Hospital, Philadelphia, on 26 May 1863.
After the War
In 1869 a pension examiner noted he was entirely deaf in the left ear, his wound site was still tender, and he had "severe attacks of headache and vertigo induced by exposure to the sun or by changes in temperature." In 1870 he was back in Orange, NJ, working in a felt hat factory.
References & notes
His service basics from Toombs1 and the Roster (from the NJ Adjutant General)2. Wound and hospital details, and the quotes above, are from the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Margaret Harrison (1825-1898) and they had 3 daughters.
Birth
1826 in CT
Death
02/10/1875; Essex County, NJ; burial in Rosedale Cemetery, Montclair, NJ
1 Toombs, Samuel, Reminiscences of the War ... the Thirteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, Orange (NJ): The (Orange) Journal, 1878, pg. 22 [AotW citation 7855]
2 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories: New Jersey, <http://ranger95.com/civil_war_us/new_jersey/>, Source page: /infantry/rosters/13th_nj_inf_regt_rost_e.htm [AotW citation 7885]
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. 131 [AotW citation 31235]