Company D. 53rd Massachusetts Infantry. Memphis National Cemetery records state, "Orig Bur Memphis Tn".
Enlisted from Lunenburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts on 2 September 1862 at 18 years of age; mustered in on 17 October 1862, Company D, 53rd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private; wounded on 30 May 1863 during the Union's siege at Port Hudson, Louisiana; died of disease on 21 August 1863 in the Union Hospital at Memphis, Tennessee.
"Post-Mortem Records of the Continued Fevers. – Cases Reported as Typhoid Fever, the Clinical History Insufficient or Absent -- Case 118. — Private Henry H. Whitney, Co. D, 53d Mass., was admitted Aug. 16, 1863, having been sick a week with diarrhoea, great prostration, dry and furred tongue, sordes on teeth, sudamina on abdomen and chest, suffusion of face and tympanites of abdomen. Gave beef-tea and sherry wine. 19th: Severe chill. 20th: Mumps; pulse 110, quick and feeble. 21st: Great prostration; rusty sputa; crepitant rales; death. -- Union Hospital, Memphis, Tenn." -- 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.
Company D. 53rd Massachusetts Infantry. Memphis National Cemetery records state, "Orig Bur Memphis Tn".
Enlisted from Lunenburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts on 2 September 1862 at 18 years of age; mustered in on 17 October 1862, Company D, 53rd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private; wounded on 30 May 1863 during the Union's siege at Port Hudson, Louisiana; died of disease on 21 August 1863 in the Union Hospital at Memphis, Tennessee.
"Post-Mortem Records of the Continued Fevers. – Cases Reported as Typhoid Fever, the Clinical History Insufficient or Absent -- Case 118. — Private Henry H. Whitney, Co. D, 53d Mass., was admitted Aug. 16, 1863, having been sick a week with diarrhoea, great prostration, dry and furred tongue, sordes on teeth, sudamina on abdomen and chest, suffusion of face and tympanites of abdomen. Gave beef-tea and sherry wine. 19th: Severe chill. 20th: Mumps; pulse 110, quick and feeble. 21st: Great prostration; rusty sputa; crepitant rales; death. -- Union Hospital, Memphis, Tenn." -- 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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