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CPL Simon B. Carlton

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CPL Simon B. Carlton Veteran

Birth
Death
8 May 1863 (aged 21)
Burial
Winterport, Waldo County, Maine, USA GPS-Latitude: 44.6769859, Longitude: -68.9189011
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Served in Co. I, 4th Maine Infantry
Died May 8, 1863 from wounds suffered 3 May 1863.
age 21y 8m
Died of wounds rec'd in Battle of Chancellorsville while in defense of his country.

"Case 590. — Corporal S. B. Carlton, Co. I, 4th Maine, was wounded at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863, and admitted to the field hospital of the 1st division, Third Corps. Surgeon E. L. Welling, 11th New Jersey, recorded: "Shot wound of left knee; resection of internal condyle of femur;" and reported the patient's death May 9, 1863."
-- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U.S. Army Surgeon General's Office.
Served in Co. I, 4th Maine Infantry
Died May 8, 1863 from wounds suffered 3 May 1863.
age 21y 8m
Died of wounds rec'd in Battle of Chancellorsville while in defense of his country.

"Case 590. — Corporal S. B. Carlton, Co. I, 4th Maine, was wounded at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863, and admitted to the field hospital of the 1st division, Third Corps. Surgeon E. L. Welling, 11th New Jersey, recorded: "Shot wound of left knee; resection of internal condyle of femur;" and reported the patient's death May 9, 1863."
-- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U.S. Army Surgeon General's Office.


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