Served in the 37th North Carolina Company D. Died of Typhoid fever as a POW.
"Clinical Records of the Continued Fevers -- Common Continued Fever --Case 7. — Private J. L. Austin, Co. D, 37th N. C; age 25; was admitted from Fort Delaware October 16, 1863, having been taken sick with continued fever about a week before his arrival. He suffered from pains in his right foot and thigh, probably connected with an open sore of gangrenous appearance near the roots of the toes; these pains occurred in severe paroxysms and prevented sleep. By the 28th the local inflammation was subdued, but the fever became aggravated in the evenings. After this he became much debilitated; his tongue was moist but red in color, subsequently becoming dry and brown; and he had a diarrhoea of about three stools in the twenty-four hours. By November 16 he was greatly emaciated, and on this day he had twitchings of the muscles and involuntary discharges. Death took place on the 19th. -- Act. Ass't Surg. W. A. Harney, U. S. A., Point Lookout, Md." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume I. (3rd Medical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1888.
Served in the 37th North Carolina Company D. Died of Typhoid fever as a POW.
"Clinical Records of the Continued Fevers -- Common Continued Fever --Case 7. — Private J. L. Austin, Co. D, 37th N. C; age 25; was admitted from Fort Delaware October 16, 1863, having been taken sick with continued fever about a week before his arrival. He suffered from pains in his right foot and thigh, probably connected with an open sore of gangrenous appearance near the roots of the toes; these pains occurred in severe paroxysms and prevented sleep. By the 28th the local inflammation was subdued, but the fever became aggravated in the evenings. After this he became much debilitated; his tongue was moist but red in color, subsequently becoming dry and brown; and he had a diarrhoea of about three stools in the twenty-four hours. By November 16 he was greatly emaciated, and on this day he had twitchings of the muscles and involuntary discharges. Death took place on the 19th. -- Act. Ass't Surg. W. A. Harney, U. S. A., Point Lookout, Md." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume I. (3rd Medical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1888.
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