Enlisted and mustered in on 1 September 1862 at Benton Barracks, Missiouri, Company D, 33rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Sergeant; promoted to Sergeant Major and transferred to Company S; wounded in action on 6 June 1864 during the engagement at Lake Chicot, Chicot County, Arkansas; returned to his unit on 6 October 1864; mustered out with disability on 10 August 1865.
"Case 928. — Sergeant H. S. Carroll, Co. D, 33d Missouri, aged 20 years, was wounded in the left foot, at the battle of Lake Chicot, June 6, 1864, by a shell which destroyed the second, third, and fourth toes. He was admitted to the Sixteenth Corps Field Hospital, where partial amputation of the injured foot was resorted to by Surgeon A. T. Bartlett, 33d Missouri, who described the operation as having been performed through the second, third, and fourth metatarsal bones. From the field the patient was sent to Adams Hospital, at Memphis, where he remained under treatment for four months, when he was returned to duty. He was discharged August 10, 1865, and pensioned. Various examiners have from time to time certified to " irritation and swelling of the foot when much used;'' and Dr. H. E. Jones, of Louisiana, Missouri, added, January 12, 1878, that "the big toe is drawn nearly at right angle with the foot and rests on the little toe." The pensioner was paid June 4, 1881." -- 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, 1883.
Enlisted and mustered in on 1 September 1862 at Benton Barracks, Missiouri, Company D, 33rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Sergeant; promoted to Sergeant Major and transferred to Company S; wounded in action on 6 June 1864 during the engagement at Lake Chicot, Chicot County, Arkansas; returned to his unit on 6 October 1864; mustered out with disability on 10 August 1865.
"Case 928. — Sergeant H. S. Carroll, Co. D, 33d Missouri, aged 20 years, was wounded in the left foot, at the battle of Lake Chicot, June 6, 1864, by a shell which destroyed the second, third, and fourth toes. He was admitted to the Sixteenth Corps Field Hospital, where partial amputation of the injured foot was resorted to by Surgeon A. T. Bartlett, 33d Missouri, who described the operation as having been performed through the second, third, and fourth metatarsal bones. From the field the patient was sent to Adams Hospital, at Memphis, where he remained under treatment for four months, when he was returned to duty. He was discharged August 10, 1865, and pensioned. Various examiners have from time to time certified to " irritation and swelling of the foot when much used;'' and Dr. H. E. Jones, of Louisiana, Missouri, added, January 12, 1878, that "the big toe is drawn nearly at right angle with the foot and rests on the little toe." The pensioner was paid June 4, 1881." -- 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, 1883.
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