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Federal (USV)

Private

John Jones

(? - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Waterbury, he enlisted on 1 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 14th Connecticut Infantry on 20 August.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862,

a ball entering his right side, three inches above the crest of the ilium [pelvic bone]. He lay upon the field until the 20th ...

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 20 (or 28) September. He could walk at fist, but was soon paralyzed. He reported intense leg pain on October 6, was feverish beginning on the 10th, and died on 11 October 1862.

An autopsy found the bullet had passed through the right side of his spine, through the spinal cord at the 3rd lumbar vertebra, and lodged in the left side of the spine. His body was taken home by relatives.

After the War

His parents began receiving pensions based on his service in May 1878.

References & notes

His service basics from Page.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR.3

Death

10/11/1862; Frederick, MD

Notes

1 Page, Charles D., History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry, Meriden (CT): The Horton Printing Co., 1906, pp. 405 - 413 [AotW citation 9210]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.801 [AotW citation 31436]

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. 446 [AotW citation 31437]

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