Co. H 4th Reg Vermont Volunteers - Enlisted and mustered in on 4 August 1863 as a substitute, Company H, 4th Vermont Volunteers Infantry Regiment as a Private; transferred from Company H to Company E; wounded in action during the Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia on 5 May 1864; mustered out on 20 March 1865.
"Case 666. — Private J. L. Hosford, Co. H, 4th Vermont, aged 21 years, was wounded at the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, by a musket ball, which entered the right leg, striking the tibia above the malleolus and lodging. He was admitted to Camden Street Hospital, Baltimore, where, on May 21st, an abscess was opened, through which the missile, together with several pieces of bone, were discharged. Considerable erysipelatous inflammation followed, attended with profuse and very fetid discharge, and the limb became exceedingly painful, necessitating its removal. The operation was performed by the skin-flap method, at the middle third, by Surgeon Z. E. Bliss, U. S. V., on May 31st. The patient recovered and was furnished with an artificial leg. He was discharged March 20, 1865, and pensioned." -- 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.
"Case 666. — Private J. L. Hosford, Co. H, 4th Vermont, aged 21 years, was wounded at the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, by a musket ball, which entered the right leg, striking the tibia above the malleolus and lodging. He was admitted to Camden Street Hospital, Baltimore, where, on May 21st, an abscess was opened, through which the missile, together with several pieces of bone, were discharged. Considerable erysipelatous inflammation followed, attended with profuse and very fetid discharge, and the limb became exceedingly painful, necessitating its removal. The operation was performed by the skin-flap method, at the middle third, by Surgeon Z. E. Bliss, U. S. V., on May 31st. The patient recovered and was furnished with an artificial leg. He was discharged March 20, 1865, and pensioned." -- 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.
Co. H 4th Reg Vermont Volunteers - Enlisted and mustered in on 4 August 1863 as a substitute, Company H, 4th Vermont Volunteers Infantry Regiment as a Private; transferred from Company H to Company E; wounded in action during the Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia on 5 May 1864; mustered out on 20 March 1865.
"Case 666. — Private J. L. Hosford, Co. H, 4th Vermont, aged 21 years, was wounded at the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, by a musket ball, which entered the right leg, striking the tibia above the malleolus and lodging. He was admitted to Camden Street Hospital, Baltimore, where, on May 21st, an abscess was opened, through which the missile, together with several pieces of bone, were discharged. Considerable erysipelatous inflammation followed, attended with profuse and very fetid discharge, and the limb became exceedingly painful, necessitating its removal. The operation was performed by the skin-flap method, at the middle third, by Surgeon Z. E. Bliss, U. S. V., on May 31st. The patient recovered and was furnished with an artificial leg. He was discharged March 20, 1865, and pensioned." -- 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.
"Case 666. — Private J. L. Hosford, Co. H, 4th Vermont, aged 21 years, was wounded at the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, by a musket ball, which entered the right leg, striking the tibia above the malleolus and lodging. He was admitted to Camden Street Hospital, Baltimore, where, on May 21st, an abscess was opened, through which the missile, together with several pieces of bone, were discharged. Considerable erysipelatous inflammation followed, attended with profuse and very fetid discharge, and the limb became exceedingly painful, necessitating its removal. The operation was performed by the skin-flap method, at the middle third, by Surgeon Z. E. Bliss, U. S. V., on May 31st. The patient recovered and was furnished with an artificial leg. He was discharged March 20, 1865, and pensioned." -- 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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