It is hot and sultry. Lieutenant Carey died this morning
here in the hospital, from his wounds, after suffering thirty-five days, he
having been wounded on the skirmish line on the 15th of June. He was shot in
the left thigh, the minie ball glancing from his hip and lodging near the
spine. But the doctors were not able to locate it until after his death, when
they removed it. I had not seen Lieutenant Carey from the time he was wounded
until after he had died, being present when his body was dressed for burial.
John Zitler came over to my ward and we went down together. We saw his clothing
and other articles packed by the chaplain, who has charge of all the effects of
the deceased soldiers, and they will be forwarded to Mrs. Carey at their home
in Cedar County, Iowa. Lieutenant Carey's body was buried in his uniform here
at Rome, Georgia.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 206-7
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