Surgeon Truman Hoffman Squire, 89th New York Infantry, treated wounded soldiers on the field at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and was afterward in charge of the field hospital known as Locust Spring on the Geeting Farm, Keedysville, MD.
Dr Squire’s list of Cases of Gunshot fractured femurs at Battle of Antietam is online in an exhibit about him from curator Erin Doane at the Chemung County (NY) Historical Society.
Addendum – April 2024
My transcription of the list above; click his name to see more about that soldier.
| Name | Rank | Regiment | Co. | date of wd | Treatment | Result | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *W—– William | Priv | 35th NY | “ | “ | ” 13 Oct | both thighs | |
| Grodwant Phillip | Private | 89th NY | G | 17th | Simple | death | Died 3 days after battle |
| Johnston John | Pri | 9th NY | H | “ | Amputation | “ | pyemia 16 days |
| Needick Adam | Sergt | ” [89th] | B | “ | “ | “ | ” 8 ” ” “ |
| Courtney [Charles] | Pri | ” [89th] | F | “ | Amputation | “ | of tetanus 6 days after |
| Van Ingen [Gerrit] | Adjt. | ” [89th] | “ | “ | “ | diarrhea 5 ” “ | |
| Hutchinson Robt | Priv | 7th S.C. | B | “ | “ | Recovered | Second amputation |
| *Weeks Benj | “ | 89th | A | “ | “ | “ | abcess in stump |
| Penfield Ch | “ | 16 Ct | G | “ | Simple | died | Nov. 26th |
| Adams Henry M | “ | “ | “ | “ | “ | Recovered | very little deformity |
| Ard G. W. | “ | 2 Geo. | K | “ | Amputation | “ | c–cation of elbow |
| Williams P. K. | Corp | “ | E | “ | Simple | “ | slight deformity |
| Gartot J. F. | Pri | 8. La. | A | “ | “ | died | Nov 26. bone un== |
| Hyde Theodore | Corp | 9th NY | D | “ | “ | Recovered | 3 inches th–ring |
| Forbes O. P. | Sergt | “ | A | “ | “ | ” [died later] | grape shot. Upper h–. deformity |
| Eddy Sergt. [George] S | Corp | 23 Ohio | I | “ | “ | “ | e–n [?] toe |
| Davis Edmund | “ | 35 Mass | “ | “ | “ | “ | ” ” full cut out |
| Harvey Samuel | “ | 4th R.I. | B | “ | “ | ” [died later] | Protracted |
| Fairbrother [Allen] | Priv | 118 Pa | — | 20th | Ext– | died | about Nov 1st |
| Wilson Orvil | “ | 16th Ct | F | 17 | Simple | “ | 3 Nov. Dishthe– |
| Sweetman Henry | “ | 9th NY | A | “ | “ | “ | Oct 27th — |
| Lay Harris | “ | 16th Ct | G | “ | “ | “ | about 1st Nov |
*could find no soldier matching these 2 names
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