Here’s another extract from Otis’s Report on Excisions of the Head of the Femur for Gunshot Injury (1869) describing the wound and treatment of Private Richard M Brown of the 2nd South Carolina Cavalry. He had been shot and captured in a skirmish in the city of Frederick, MD on 12 September 1862 and died of his wounds and infection in a Federal hospital there on 7 November.

This is part of US Surgeon G.A. Otis’s Report on Excisions of the Head of the Femur for Gunshot Injury (1869) concerning Corporal Thomas J. Dunn of the 18th Mississippi Infantry describing his months of misery after he was shot at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. His diseased femur (thigh bone) is illustrated.

In April 1863 the Confederate Agent of Exchange in Richmond requested

He was not exchanged, probably in no condition to travel, but was instead transferred to a US Army hospital in Frederick on 3 May and he died there of infection in his hip and other complications from his wounds on 19 June 1863.

Dr. Melancthon Storrs (Yale Medicine ’53) was commissioned Surgeon of the 8th Connecticut Infantry in October 1861 and, as Brigade Surgeon, treated wounded soldiers on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and at the 3rd Division, Ninth Corps field hospital near Sharpsburg during and after the battle at Antietam on the 17th. The postwar portrait of him at the top is from the Hartford Medical Society as published by Dr. Robert M. Bedard in Four Connecticut Physicians: Window to Civil War Medicine and Service in the journal Connecticut Medicine (February 2009) [pdf].

One of his patients, seen below, was Captain Frederick M Barber of the 16th Connecticut, mortally wounded by a gunshot at Antietam. Surgeon Storrs operated on his hip on 18 September but could not save him. Barber died from “surgical fever” on the 20th. His photograph is in the Scott Hann collection, published online by John Banks.

Captain Henry A Sand of the 103rd New York Infantry was mortally wounded at Antietam and was treated in a temporary hospital in the German Reformed Church in Sharpsburg. But he died there in October 1862. This photograph is among many that hung on the walls of the New York State Capitol in Albany during the war – note the pinholes – to remind lawmakers of their sons in the fight. It’s now online from the New York State Military Museum.

Antietam veteran Private Hugh A Campbell of the 71st Pennsylvania went West after the war and spent most of the rest of his life in the Chickasaw Nation in the Indian Territory (IT). He hauled freight for the government and raised hogs, and later was a farmer on 1000 acres near Pauls Valley, IT (near #367 on the map). He married Julia Gardner, who was at least part Choctaw, in 1872, and they had 3 children.

This 1897 map shows the tribal areas of what’s now Oklahoma; it’s online from Indian Land Cessions, a project of the Tennessee GenWeb. It was published in the 18th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology – 1896-’97 by the Smithsonian Institution.

Inset is a pre-1890 photograph of the town of Pauls Valley, Indian Territory, online thanks to Pauls Valley History from the Oklahoma GenWeb.