Enlisted on 29 March 1864 at Troy, Pennsylvania at 18 years of age; mustered in on 30 March 1864, Battery U (Unassigned), 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery Regiment as a Private.
"Clinical Records of the Continuing Fevers. -- Case 36. — Abcess and contraction of leg. — Private Aaron Chubbuck. Co.U 2d Pa. Heavy Art.; age 18; was admitted Aug. 12, 1864, convalescing from a tedious attack of typhoid fever [regarded as remittent during the patient's stay at Harewood hospital, Washington. D. C.], which had left him with abscesses in the left thigh near the buttock. The leg was partially flexed and could not be extended without much pain. Iron and quinine were administered with full diet; pressure was applied to the leg from December 3 to January 5, 1865. On the 15th the leg was reported as much contracted, discharging and so painful as to be unable to bear extension on splints. On February 4 another abscess was reported as forming; this discharged on the 20th. On March 23 the patient suffered from a slight attack of varioloid. On June 20 he was discharged from service on account of lameness of the left leg. — Satterlee Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume I. (3rd Medical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1888.
Enlisted on 29 March 1864 at Troy, Pennsylvania at 18 years of age; mustered in on 30 March 1864, Battery U (Unassigned), 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery Regiment as a Private.
"Clinical Records of the Continuing Fevers. -- Case 36. — Abcess and contraction of leg. — Private Aaron Chubbuck. Co.U 2d Pa. Heavy Art.; age 18; was admitted Aug. 12, 1864, convalescing from a tedious attack of typhoid fever [regarded as remittent during the patient's stay at Harewood hospital, Washington. D. C.], which had left him with abscesses in the left thigh near the buttock. The leg was partially flexed and could not be extended without much pain. Iron and quinine were administered with full diet; pressure was applied to the leg from December 3 to January 5, 1865. On the 15th the leg was reported as much contracted, discharging and so painful as to be unable to bear extension on splints. On February 4 another abscess was reported as forming; this discharged on the 20th. On March 23 the patient suffered from a slight attack of varioloid. On June 20 he was discharged from service on account of lameness of the left leg. — Satterlee Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume I. (3rd Medical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1888.
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