Civil War Union Soldier. He was mustered in as a recruit Private in Company M, 1st New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry on January 4, 1864. He served until he died of typhoid fever at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 18, 1864. Originally interred in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia, he was subsequently re-interred in his family's plot in Oak Grove Cemetery, Hammonton, New Jersey.
"Clinical Records of the Continued Fevers. -- Typho-Malarial and Typhoid Fever. -- Injury to the nervous system. -- Case 60. — Sequent cerebro-spinal fever. — Private Arthur Potter. Co. M, 1st N. J. Cav.; age 19; was admitted Aug. 20, 1861, with severe uncomplicated typhoid fever, from which he convalesced rapidly. By September 23 he was walking about the ward; but on October 15 he was seized with headache, fever and constipation. Castor oil and turpentine were given and the urine withdrawn by catheter. He became semi-comatose on the 17th and died comatose next day. — Satterlee Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa." -- 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.
Civil War Union Soldier. He was mustered in as a recruit Private in Company M, 1st New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry on January 4, 1864. He served until he died of typhoid fever at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 18, 1864. Originally interred in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia, he was subsequently re-interred in his family's plot in Oak Grove Cemetery, Hammonton, New Jersey.
"Clinical Records of the Continued Fevers. -- Typho-Malarial and Typhoid Fever. -- Injury to the nervous system. -- Case 60. — Sequent cerebro-spinal fever. — Private Arthur Potter. Co. M, 1st N. J. Cav.; age 19; was admitted Aug. 20, 1861, with severe uncomplicated typhoid fever, from which he convalesced rapidly. By September 23 he was walking about the ward; but on October 15 he was seized with headache, fever and constipation. Castor oil and turpentine were given and the urine withdrawn by catheter. He became semi-comatose on the 17th and died comatose next day. — Satterlee Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa." -- 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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