John E. Morrell

Age 18, he enlisted at Kingston, NY for 3 years and mustered on 8 October 1861 as a Private in Company E, 59th New York Infantry.

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 ...

by a fragment of shell, which struck the left temporal bone above the eye, and, cutting through the skull, passed obliquely backward over the top of the head. At the same time, while going to the rear, he received a bullet wound through the middle third of the left arm, with injury to the nerve.

He was treated in the 2nd Corps field hospital on the Hoffman Farm near the battlefield from 19 September, then sent to Satterlee General Hospital in Philadelphia on 27 September. He was reported as a deserter from the hospital on 3 November 1862, but had probably returned to his company. He was transferred to Company B on 25 June 1863, and was detached for duty at the regimental hospital from October 1863 to muster-out on 11 October 1864 near Petersburg, VA.

In July 1869 a pension examiner noted that his arm was

numb and weak, and that, being a blacksmith and left handed, it was very inconvenient; and that the effect of the skull wound was such that a stooping position produced dizziness, dimness of vision, and nausea. His disability is rated total and permanent.

His service from the State of New York1 and his Muster Roll Abstract, online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,2 as John Worrall, source also of the quotes above. The 1890 Census had him as John E. Morrall.

c. 1843