Private Co. A 39th Regiment 10th Pa. Reserve Corps, Enrolled July 16, 1861 at age 25 in Allegheny Co. Pa. Mustered in July 17, 1861. Transferred to Veterans Reserve Corps Sept. 1, 1863
Disability – Shot through both lungs and through left shoulder. He was incarcerated in Libby Prison and refused medical attention by his captors. Several Union surgeons were in Libby at that time, but they had no instruments or supplies of any character to dress his wounds with. The most he feared was that maggots would get into the wounds which were suppurating. Noticing a hogshead of tobacco on the sidewalk near the apartment in which he was confined, he conceived the idea of drawing a supply of this through the window by the aid of a window stop which he loosened and which had a small nail in one end. He managed to secure enough tobacco to successfully plug up the holes in his body, but the theft discovered and reported by one of the guards. For this offense he was placed in solitary confinement for 16 days.
Disability – Shot through both lungs and through left shoulder. He was incarcerated in Libby Prison and refused medical attention by his captors. Several Union surgeons were in Libby at that time, but they had no instruments or supplies of any character to dress his wounds with. The most he feared was that maggots would get into the wounds which were suppurating. Noticing a hogshead of tobacco on the sidewalk near the apartment in which he was confined, he conceived the idea of drawing a supply of this through the window by the aid of a window stop which he loosened and which had a small nail in one end. He managed to secure enough tobacco to successfully plug up the holes in his body, but the theft discovered and reported by one of the guards. For this offense he was placed in solitary confinement for 16 days.
Private Co. A 39th Regiment 10th Pa. Reserve Corps, Enrolled July 16, 1861 at age 25 in Allegheny Co. Pa. Mustered in July 17, 1861. Transferred to Veterans Reserve Corps Sept. 1, 1863
Disability – Shot through both lungs and through left shoulder. He was incarcerated in Libby Prison and refused medical attention by his captors. Several Union surgeons were in Libby at that time, but they had no instruments or supplies of any character to dress his wounds with. The most he feared was that maggots would get into the wounds which were suppurating. Noticing a hogshead of tobacco on the sidewalk near the apartment in which he was confined, he conceived the idea of drawing a supply of this through the window by the aid of a window stop which he loosened and which had a small nail in one end. He managed to secure enough tobacco to successfully plug up the holes in his body, but the theft discovered and reported by one of the guards. For this offense he was placed in solitary confinement for 16 days.
Disability – Shot through both lungs and through left shoulder. He was incarcerated in Libby Prison and refused medical attention by his captors. Several Union surgeons were in Libby at that time, but they had no instruments or supplies of any character to dress his wounds with. The most he feared was that maggots would get into the wounds which were suppurating. Noticing a hogshead of tobacco on the sidewalk near the apartment in which he was confined, he conceived the idea of drawing a supply of this through the window by the aid of a window stop which he loosened and which had a small nail in one end. He managed to secure enough tobacco to successfully plug up the holes in his body, but the theft discovered and reported by one of the guards. For this offense he was placed in solitary confinement for 16 days.
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