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(c. 1818 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 66th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 43, he enlisted on 6 November 1861 in New York City and mustered as a Private in Company A, 66th New York Infantry on 20 November.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his head which fractured his skull and drove bone fragments into his brain in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a field hospital by Surgeon C.S. Wood who trephined (cut a hole in) his skull and removed pieces of bone, but did not find the bullet. John was briefly conscious afterward, but went into convulsions and died on 23 September 1862.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1818
Death
09/23/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 27 (for the year 1901) [AotW citation 8004]
2 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. 275 [AotW citation 31333]