Husband of Prudence Emma (Prickett) Simmermon and son of Patience (Sears) and Horatio W. Simmermon. Prudence and Joseph were married on 31 Dec 1870 in Williamstown, Gloucester County, New Jersey.
Enlisted and mustered in on 1 September 1864, Marine Corps, mustered out with disability on 20 June 1865.
"Case 548. — Private J. C. Simmerman, of the Marine Corps, aged 21 years, while serving on board of tlie U. S. Steamer Minnesota, was wounded in the knee during the [SecondBattle] attack on Fort Fisher [New Hanover County, North Carolina], January 15, 1865. He was treated at the Naval Hospital at Portsmouth, whence he was discharged June 19, 1865, and pensioned, by reason of "shot wound of left knee joint, causing compound fracture, and resulting in anchylosis of the joint with incapacity to use the leg, which may ultimately require amputation." In the succeeding year, while at Philadelphia, the pensioner presented himself for treatment to Dr. G. H. Napheys, formerly connected with the Navy and with the Army, who made the following report of the case (Medical and Surgical Reporter, Vol. XYI, 1867, p. 307): "He was struck, while lying down, by a grapeshot entering the inner condyle of the femur and passing through the articulation. When discharged from hospital his knee was perfectly stiff and flexed at right angle. Afterwards there was a constant discharge and the passage from time to time of pieces of bone from the part, the last fragment coming away in June, 1866. When he presented himself at the clinic he had bony anchylosis of the wounded knee, and the leg was flexed at such an angle with the thigh that the distance between the heel and the corresponding buttock was only seven and a half inches. The operation consisted in breaking up the extensive osseous adhesions by means of perforators and other, instruments. The hamstring muscles were divided subcutaneously. The limb was then bandaged throughout its whole length. It was afterwards placed upon a double-inclined plane with a screw arrangement, so that it could be gradually brought down. About two months after the operation the limb was straightened sufficiently to enable him to rest on the ball of the foot, which is all that can be desired. The heel is somewhat elevated; it will be brought down at some future time by dividing subcutaneously the tendo-Achilles. He walks readily by the aid of a cane. On April 1, 1867, the patient writes that he has good motion of the ankle joint and walks with increasing ease and comfort." The Philadelphia Examining Board, in 1873, and at subsequent dates, certified to the injury and to firm anchylosis as resulting therefrom, together with dislocation of the tibia backwards. In 1873, the leg was described as being flexed at an angle of 25°, and two years later at 40°, with the heel drawn up two and a half inches. An operation on account of necrosed bone is also alleged to have been performed. Examiner J. A. Armstrong, of Camden, reported, September 17, 1877: "At present the leg is in a straight position, the knee joint anchyloscd. and the parts surrounding it calloused and indurated." At a subsequent examination by the Hoard the thigh and leg were represented as being much wasted, and the condition oft be foot was described as that of a case of "talipes equinus." The pensioner was paid December 4, 1879." -- 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.
Enlisted and mustered in on 1 September 1864, Marine Corps, mustered out with disability on 20 June 1865.
"Case 548. — Private J. C. Simmerman, of the Marine Corps, aged 21 years, while serving on board of tlie U. S. Steamer Minnesota, was wounded in the knee during the [SecondBattle] attack on Fort Fisher [New Hanover County, North Carolina], January 15, 1865. He was treated at the Naval Hospital at Portsmouth, whence he was discharged June 19, 1865, and pensioned, by reason of "shot wound of left knee joint, causing compound fracture, and resulting in anchylosis of the joint with incapacity to use the leg, which may ultimately require amputation." In the succeeding year, while at Philadelphia, the pensioner presented himself for treatment to Dr. G. H. Napheys, formerly connected with the Navy and with the Army, who made the following report of the case (Medical and Surgical Reporter, Vol. XYI, 1867, p. 307): "He was struck, while lying down, by a grapeshot entering the inner condyle of the femur and passing through the articulation. When discharged from hospital his knee was perfectly stiff and flexed at right angle. Afterwards there was a constant discharge and the passage from time to time of pieces of bone from the part, the last fragment coming away in June, 1866. When he presented himself at the clinic he had bony anchylosis of the wounded knee, and the leg was flexed at such an angle with the thigh that the distance between the heel and the corresponding buttock was only seven and a half inches. The operation consisted in breaking up the extensive osseous adhesions by means of perforators and other, instruments. The hamstring muscles were divided subcutaneously. The limb was then bandaged throughout its whole length. It was afterwards placed upon a double-inclined plane with a screw arrangement, so that it could be gradually brought down. About two months after the operation the limb was straightened sufficiently to enable him to rest on the ball of the foot, which is all that can be desired. The heel is somewhat elevated; it will be brought down at some future time by dividing subcutaneously the tendo-Achilles. He walks readily by the aid of a cane. On April 1, 1867, the patient writes that he has good motion of the ankle joint and walks with increasing ease and comfort." The Philadelphia Examining Board, in 1873, and at subsequent dates, certified to the injury and to firm anchylosis as resulting therefrom, together with dislocation of the tibia backwards. In 1873, the leg was described as being flexed at an angle of 25°, and two years later at 40°, with the heel drawn up two and a half inches. An operation on account of necrosed bone is also alleged to have been performed. Examiner J. A. Armstrong, of Camden, reported, September 17, 1877: "At present the leg is in a straight position, the knee joint anchyloscd. and the parts surrounding it calloused and indurated." At a subsequent examination by the Hoard the thigh and leg were represented as being much wasted, and the condition oft be foot was described as that of a case of "talipes equinus." The pensioner was paid December 4, 1879." -- 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.
Husband of Prudence Emma (Prickett) Simmermon and son of Patience (Sears) and Horatio W. Simmermon. Prudence and Joseph were married on 31 Dec 1870 in Williamstown, Gloucester County, New Jersey.
Enlisted and mustered in on 1 September 1864, Marine Corps, mustered out with disability on 20 June 1865.
"Case 548. — Private J. C. Simmerman, of the Marine Corps, aged 21 years, while serving on board of tlie U. S. Steamer Minnesota, was wounded in the knee during the [SecondBattle] attack on Fort Fisher [New Hanover County, North Carolina], January 15, 1865. He was treated at the Naval Hospital at Portsmouth, whence he was discharged June 19, 1865, and pensioned, by reason of "shot wound of left knee joint, causing compound fracture, and resulting in anchylosis of the joint with incapacity to use the leg, which may ultimately require amputation." In the succeeding year, while at Philadelphia, the pensioner presented himself for treatment to Dr. G. H. Napheys, formerly connected with the Navy and with the Army, who made the following report of the case (Medical and Surgical Reporter, Vol. XYI, 1867, p. 307): "He was struck, while lying down, by a grapeshot entering the inner condyle of the femur and passing through the articulation. When discharged from hospital his knee was perfectly stiff and flexed at right angle. Afterwards there was a constant discharge and the passage from time to time of pieces of bone from the part, the last fragment coming away in June, 1866. When he presented himself at the clinic he had bony anchylosis of the wounded knee, and the leg was flexed at such an angle with the thigh that the distance between the heel and the corresponding buttock was only seven and a half inches. The operation consisted in breaking up the extensive osseous adhesions by means of perforators and other, instruments. The hamstring muscles were divided subcutaneously. The limb was then bandaged throughout its whole length. It was afterwards placed upon a double-inclined plane with a screw arrangement, so that it could be gradually brought down. About two months after the operation the limb was straightened sufficiently to enable him to rest on the ball of the foot, which is all that can be desired. The heel is somewhat elevated; it will be brought down at some future time by dividing subcutaneously the tendo-Achilles. He walks readily by the aid of a cane. On April 1, 1867, the patient writes that he has good motion of the ankle joint and walks with increasing ease and comfort." The Philadelphia Examining Board, in 1873, and at subsequent dates, certified to the injury and to firm anchylosis as resulting therefrom, together with dislocation of the tibia backwards. In 1873, the leg was described as being flexed at an angle of 25°, and two years later at 40°, with the heel drawn up two and a half inches. An operation on account of necrosed bone is also alleged to have been performed. Examiner J. A. Armstrong, of Camden, reported, September 17, 1877: "At present the leg is in a straight position, the knee joint anchyloscd. and the parts surrounding it calloused and indurated." At a subsequent examination by the Hoard the thigh and leg were represented as being much wasted, and the condition oft be foot was described as that of a case of "talipes equinus." The pensioner was paid December 4, 1879." -- 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.
Enlisted and mustered in on 1 September 1864, Marine Corps, mustered out with disability on 20 June 1865.
"Case 548. — Private J. C. Simmerman, of the Marine Corps, aged 21 years, while serving on board of tlie U. S. Steamer Minnesota, was wounded in the knee during the [SecondBattle] attack on Fort Fisher [New Hanover County, North Carolina], January 15, 1865. He was treated at the Naval Hospital at Portsmouth, whence he was discharged June 19, 1865, and pensioned, by reason of "shot wound of left knee joint, causing compound fracture, and resulting in anchylosis of the joint with incapacity to use the leg, which may ultimately require amputation." In the succeeding year, while at Philadelphia, the pensioner presented himself for treatment to Dr. G. H. Napheys, formerly connected with the Navy and with the Army, who made the following report of the case (Medical and Surgical Reporter, Vol. XYI, 1867, p. 307): "He was struck, while lying down, by a grapeshot entering the inner condyle of the femur and passing through the articulation. When discharged from hospital his knee was perfectly stiff and flexed at right angle. Afterwards there was a constant discharge and the passage from time to time of pieces of bone from the part, the last fragment coming away in June, 1866. When he presented himself at the clinic he had bony anchylosis of the wounded knee, and the leg was flexed at such an angle with the thigh that the distance between the heel and the corresponding buttock was only seven and a half inches. The operation consisted in breaking up the extensive osseous adhesions by means of perforators and other, instruments. The hamstring muscles were divided subcutaneously. The limb was then bandaged throughout its whole length. It was afterwards placed upon a double-inclined plane with a screw arrangement, so that it could be gradually brought down. About two months after the operation the limb was straightened sufficiently to enable him to rest on the ball of the foot, which is all that can be desired. The heel is somewhat elevated; it will be brought down at some future time by dividing subcutaneously the tendo-Achilles. He walks readily by the aid of a cane. On April 1, 1867, the patient writes that he has good motion of the ankle joint and walks with increasing ease and comfort." The Philadelphia Examining Board, in 1873, and at subsequent dates, certified to the injury and to firm anchylosis as resulting therefrom, together with dislocation of the tibia backwards. In 1873, the leg was described as being flexed at an angle of 25°, and two years later at 40°, with the heel drawn up two and a half inches. An operation on account of necrosed bone is also alleged to have been performed. Examiner J. A. Armstrong, of Camden, reported, September 17, 1877: "At present the leg is in a straight position, the knee joint anchyloscd. and the parts surrounding it calloused and indurated." At a subsequent examination by the Hoard the thigh and leg were represented as being much wasted, and the condition oft be foot was described as that of a case of "talipes equinus." The pensioner was paid December 4, 1879." -- 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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