Sunday, July 24, 2011

Walter E. Partridge, Private, Co. F, 36th Illinois Infantry: Medical Records

Appears on List of Casualties of the regiment in the battles of March 6, 7, and 8, 1862.  Wounded Mar 7, 1862.  Seat of injury: arm.  Casualty List No. 312.

Appears on List of Casualties of the Regiment at the battle of Pea Ridge Ark. Mar 6 & 7, 1862.  Wounded.  Casualty List No. 555.

Admitted May 15, 1862 to U. S. A. Gen’l Hosp. (1 & 2), Benton Barracks, near St. Louis, Mo.  Complaint, wound of the arm.  On furlough 20 days May 16, 1862.  Mo. Reg. No. 225; Page 31.

Appears on List of Casualties of the Regiment at the battle of Chickamauga, Ga.  Wounded Sep 20, 1863.  Seat of injury: finger.  Casualty List No. 540.

Appears on list of Casualties at the Battle of Chickamauga Creek, Ga., Sept. 20, 1863.  Remarks: B.  Ill. Reg’l Reg. No. 398; page 46.

Appears on List of Casualties of the Regiment at the Battle of Chickamauga Creek, Ga.  Wounded, Sept. 20, 1863.  Seat of injury: head.  Nature of injury: slight.  Reported by F. W. Lytle Surg. 36 Ills.  Casualty List No. 541

Admitted Sept. 25, 1863, to Cumberland U. S. A. General Hospital, Nashville, Tenn.  Complaint, T. W. in forehead.  Ret’d to duty Oct 22, 1863.  Remarks:  Conv. Camp. 1” Div.  Tenn. Reg. No. 301; Hos. No. Alpha.

Admitted Oct 23 1863 to U. S. A. Convalescent Camp Hospital, Nashville, Tenn.  Tenn Reg. No. 360; Page 152.

Regimental Hospital, 36th Illinois Infantry.  Aug. 9-11 & 13, 1864.  Dysentery.  From Aug 24, 1864 [illegible] Diarrhea.  Aug 25, 1864,  Pres.  From Aug 27, 1864, Dia.  Prescription Book.  Ill. Reg’l Reg. No. 399

1 comment:

Jim Miller said...

I believe that "T. W. in forehead." Stands for tree wound in forehead.


‎"One battery wagon swinging round with almost lightning speed struck a dead tree, which caused the top to break off, coming down into Company F and striking two men, one of whom was Oscar Hobbs, supposed to be killed, but he afterwards revived." - Lyman G. Bennett & William M. Haigh, History of the Thirty-Sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, p. 468

List of Wounded from Company f, 36th Illinois Infantry at the Battle of Chickamauga: "Sergt. Burgo Thompson, head; Sergt. Geo. Neff, hip; Corp. Gunner Gunnerson, shoulder; James H. Hall, died in enemy's bands, Sept. 22; Ira M. Johnson, neck; Oscar Hobbs, head; Walter E. Partridge, head; William McLary, finger; Chas. Sweetland, captured." - Lyman G. Bennett & William M. Haigh, History of the Thirty-Sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, p. 482