Enlisted on 11 September 1961 from Pittsfield, New Hampshire; mustered in on 12 October 1861, Company A, 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private; captured and imprisoned during the battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia on 1 June 1862; subsequenlty exchanged; wounded in action on 2 July 1863 during the battle of Gettysburg (shot in leg, amputated); died of wound complications on 30 July 1863 in the Seminary Hospital at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
"Case 1277. — Private S. R. Green, Co. A, 5th New Hampshire, was wounded in the leg, at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, by a minie ball, which fractured the tibia and fibula. Amputation at the middle third of the leg was performed at a field hospital by Surgeon C. S. Wood, 68th New York, who made the following report: ''Out of the hundreds of cases in which I have administered chloroform this is the only one accompanied by any unpleasant symptoms; here the patient sunk under its use, was apparently dead, and respiration and circulation both ceased. But by the continual use for some ten or fifteen minutes of Marshall Hall's ready method he was restored and the operation was proceeded with. The cause was evidently inattention on the part of the administrator." The patient subsequently died at the Seminary Hospital at Gettysburg on July 30, 1863." -- 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, 1883. (Thank you Celeste)
Enlisted on 11 September 1961 from Pittsfield, New Hampshire; mustered in on 12 October 1861, Company A, 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private; captured and imprisoned during the battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia on 1 June 1862; subsequenlty exchanged; wounded in action on 2 July 1863 during the battle of Gettysburg (shot in leg, amputated); died of wound complications on 30 July 1863 in the Seminary Hospital at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
"Case 1277. — Private S. R. Green, Co. A, 5th New Hampshire, was wounded in the leg, at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, by a minie ball, which fractured the tibia and fibula. Amputation at the middle third of the leg was performed at a field hospital by Surgeon C. S. Wood, 68th New York, who made the following report: ''Out of the hundreds of cases in which I have administered chloroform this is the only one accompanied by any unpleasant symptoms; here the patient sunk under its use, was apparently dead, and respiration and circulation both ceased. But by the continual use for some ten or fifteen minutes of Marshall Hall's ready method he was restored and the operation was proceeded with. The cause was evidently inattention on the part of the administrator." The patient subsequently died at the Seminary Hospital at Gettysburg on July 30, 1863." -- 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, 1883. (Thank you Celeste)
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5th NH Inf., Co. A.
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