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Samuel Worthington Fleming

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Samuel Worthington Fleming

Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
22 Jun 1920 (aged 78)
Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Fannettsburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Enlisted from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania and mustered in on 26 August 1864, Company I, 201st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment as a Private; mustered out on 21 June 1865 at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.


"Clinical Records of Malarial Disease...Remittent with scurvy. -- Case 30. -- Private Samuel W. Flemming. Co. I. 201st Pa. Vols.; age 23; was admitted November 4, 1864 with remittent fever from which he had been suffering for sometime. He was quite prostrated, being unable to speak above a whisper: his tongue was pale, gums spongy and bowels moved with great frequency; he was anaemic and had some cough. On the 6th he was delirious; the tongue black; the teeth covered with sordes; the bowels were moved less frequently, but there was great tenderness in the right iliac region. Turpentine was prescribed. On the 10th the patient was much improved. He was returned to duty January 14, 1865. -- Hospital, Alexandria, Va." -- 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 from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania and mustered in on 26 August 1864, Company I, 201st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment as a Private; mustered out on 21 June 1865 at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.


"Clinical Records of Malarial Disease...Remittent with scurvy. -- Case 30. -- Private Samuel W. Flemming. Co. I. 201st Pa. Vols.; age 23; was admitted November 4, 1864 with remittent fever from which he had been suffering for sometime. He was quite prostrated, being unable to speak above a whisper: his tongue was pale, gums spongy and bowels moved with great frequency; he was anaemic and had some cough. On the 6th he was delirious; the tongue black; the teeth covered with sordes; the bowels were moved less frequently, but there was great tenderness in the right iliac region. Turpentine was prescribed. On the 10th the patient was much improved. He was returned to duty January 14, 1865. -- Hospital, Alexandria, Va." -- 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.


Inscription

Co I. 201 Reg. Pa. Inft.



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