Certificate of Disability for Hugh Gallagher, 21st Mass
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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… continue reading
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Edward F. Powell
20 year old Corporal Edward F Powell of the 5th North Carolina Infantry was grievously wounded in the face in combat near Fox’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862. He spent the rest of the war in Virginia… continue reading
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Why the Union Army Did Not Win at Antietam.
Sergeant Patrick Breen fought with Company C of the 2nd United States Infantry above the Middle Bridge at Antietam on the afternoon of 17 September 1862, and two days later at Boteler’s Ford near Shepherdstown. Many years later, in 1895,… continue reading
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Sgt Henry Smith, 2nd US Infantry
That’s the stone in the Antietam National Cemetery under which Sergeant Henry Smith of Company K, 2nd United States Infantry is likely buried. The Cemetery History says he’s Sgt. Henry Smith of Company K, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, and “Wis.” is… continue reading
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Sheriff Leahy
Dublin-born William J Leahy was seriously wounded in the thigh at Antietam on 17 September 1862 while serving as 2nd Lieutenant of Company C, 2nd United States Sharpshooters. As a result, he resigned his commission and went home in January… continue reading
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Kelly, J., Pt., B, 2d Infantry
From the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (MSHWR, Volume 2, Part 3, page 293), a list of 676 cases of Intermediary Amputations in the Lower Third of the Femur for Shot Fracture performed by Army… continue reading
