This is Private Hugh Gallagher‘s Certificate of Disability for Discharge drafted 10 February 1863 at the US Army General Hospital in Baltimore, MD. It’s from his Compiled Service Records now in the National Archives (this copy online from fold3).

Private Gallagher was in Company E, 21st Massachusetts Infantry and was wounded in action at Fox’s Gap on 14 September 1862 and again at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December. He lost a finger as a result and was discharged to go home on 11 March 1863.

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