CPL Everett Martin Delano (1842-1864)

CPL Everett Martin Delano Veteran

Birth

9 Dec 1842

Abbot Village, Piscataquis County, Maine, USA

Death

26 May 1864 (aged 21)

Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA

Burial

Old Cemetery

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At enlistment: Resident of Abbot, ME; age 19.

Enlisted on 8/21/1862 as a private and was mustered into Co. E, 18th Maine Infantry; transferred on 12/19/1862 to Battery E, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery. Promoted to corporal on unknown date in 1864; WIA on 5/19/1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, VA; died of wounds.

Biographical information submitted 29 Jul 2015 by GPoppa

Per The Medical and Surgical History of the War; Part 1, Vol. 2, p. 255: CPL Delano died at Emory Hospital in Washington, DC, on May 22, 1864.

"Case 1193. — Corporal A. M. Delano, Co. E, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, aged 21 years, was wounded at Spotsylvania, May 12. 1864, by a minie ball, which entered just back of the left ear, fracturing the mastoid process of the left temporal bone, passed downward and forward and lodged just anterior to the artery at the angle of the lower jaw. On May 22d he was admitted into Emory Hospital, Washington, where, on the same day the missile and a fragment of the cranium were removed. On May 25th haemorrhage to the extent of twenty ounces occurred from the internal jugular vein. He died suddenly on May 25, 1864. Air was supposed to have passed into the vein." -- 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, Page 817.

At enlistment: Resident of Abbot, ME; age 19.

Biographical information submitted 29 Jul 2015 by GPoppa

Per The Medical and Surgical History of the War; Part 1, Vol. 2, p. 255: CPL Delano died at Emory Hospital in Washington, DC, on May 22, 1864.