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Samuel Cunningham

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Samuel Cunningham Veteran

Birth
Armagh, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
29 Jul 1930 (aged 88)
Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Civil War: 41st Pennsylvania Regiment, 12th Reserve Corps, Company H. This info from Kathryn Doyle.


Enlisted from Indiana County, Pennsylvania and mustered in on 24 July 1861, Company H, 41st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment as a Private; sick and hospitalized in September, 1861 *; wounded in action on 30 August 1862 durin the 2nd Battle of Bull Run, Virginia; mustered out with disability on 26 December 1862.


* "Clinical Records of the Continued Fevers -- Seven Remittent Cases -- Case 55. — Private Samuel Cunningham, Co. H, 12th Pa. Vols., was taken about Sept. 1, 1861, with weakness, headache, nausea and pain in the bones, and was admitted on the 5th as a case of remittent fever. His tongue was flabby, white-coated and red at the edges, pulse 90, face flushed, skin moist and hot, bowels constipated. His fever was reported to be worse in the morning than in the evening. A dose of Epsom salt was followed by six large thin stools. Quinine was given. Next day he had two small stools, and on the 7th his bowels were quiet. On this day the morning pulse was 84, the evening 68, full on both occasions; and there was headache with flushed face, a pale white-coated tongue and anorexia. Dover's powder was given at night. On the 8th the morning pulse was 66, the tongue coated white in the middle, the face slightly flushed and there was some giddiness. In the evening the pulse had risen to 74, the tongue was clean, and an eruption, stated as owing to the poison of the rhus toxicodendron, appeared in confluent patches. After this he rested well and had no fever. Bicarbonate of soda was applied to the eruption, which faded in four or five days. On the 12th the patient's appetite was good and he was walking about. On the 13th he was transferred to hospital at Baltimore, Md." -- 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.

Civil War: 41st Pennsylvania Regiment, 12th Reserve Corps, Company H. This info from Kathryn Doyle.


Enlisted from Indiana County, Pennsylvania and mustered in on 24 July 1861, Company H, 41st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment as a Private; sick and hospitalized in September, 1861 *; wounded in action on 30 August 1862 durin the 2nd Battle of Bull Run, Virginia; mustered out with disability on 26 December 1862.


* "Clinical Records of the Continued Fevers -- Seven Remittent Cases -- Case 55. — Private Samuel Cunningham, Co. H, 12th Pa. Vols., was taken about Sept. 1, 1861, with weakness, headache, nausea and pain in the bones, and was admitted on the 5th as a case of remittent fever. His tongue was flabby, white-coated and red at the edges, pulse 90, face flushed, skin moist and hot, bowels constipated. His fever was reported to be worse in the morning than in the evening. A dose of Epsom salt was followed by six large thin stools. Quinine was given. Next day he had two small stools, and on the 7th his bowels were quiet. On this day the morning pulse was 84, the evening 68, full on both occasions; and there was headache with flushed face, a pale white-coated tongue and anorexia. Dover's powder was given at night. On the 8th the morning pulse was 66, the tongue coated white in the middle, the face slightly flushed and there was some giddiness. In the evening the pulse had risen to 74, the tongue was clean, and an eruption, stated as owing to the poison of the rhus toxicodendron, appeared in confluent patches. After this he rested well and had no fever. Bicarbonate of soda was applied to the eruption, which faded in four or five days. On the 12th the patient's appetite was good and he was walking about. On the 13th he was transferred to hospital at Baltimore, Md." -- 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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