Walter Scott Durlin

A 22 year old farmer at Lodi, WI, going by Scott, he enlisted at Madison as a Private in Company A, 6th Wisconsin Infantry on 16 July 1861.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right leg in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 15 September, sent on to Baltimore on 24 September 1862, was later treated in the hospital on David's Island, New York Harbor, and was back with his company by December 1862. He reenlisted on 31 December 1863 and was again wounded, by a piece of shell in his lower left leg in the Wilderness, VA in May 1864. He was treated at the 5th Corps field hospital there and then in the Fairfax Seminary hospital in Alexandria, VA. He was furloughed home for about two months to recover. He was appointed Corporal on 1 November 1864 and mustered out on 14 July 1865 in Jeffersonville, IN.

In 1870 he was a farmer living near his parent's place in Pittsfield, Warren County, PA, and he farmed there to at least 1910. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in March 1879. By 1930, then age 91, he'd retired and was living with his daughter Gertrude and her family in Youngsville. He died there, at nearly 93 years of age, of gangrene of the legs.

His service from the State of Wisconsin1 and his Compiled Service Records.2 South Mountain wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Scott Durling. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1930. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by Dennis Skalstad. Thanks to Kathy Steckelberg for sharing her research in Durlin's CSRs and pension files.

He married Lorena Orra Cole (1843-1927) in July 1865 and they had 6 children.

02/08/1839; Pittsfield, PA

01/29/1932; Youngsville, PA; burial in Wrightsville Cemetery, Wrightsville, PA