Confederate Soldier. Served as a Sergeant in Company G of the 20th North Carolina Infantry . He was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Fort McHenry in Baltimore,MD. Dying as a result of his injuries shortly after capture. He was interred in the fort's soldier's grave and was reinterred at Loudon Park National Cemetery.
"Case 168. — Sergeant M. D. Ensor, Co. C, 20th North Carolina, aged 26 years, was wounded and captured at Winchester, September 19, 1864. On the following day he was admitted to the Prisoner's Hospital, where Assistant Surgeon H. B. Noble, 2d Ohio Cavalry, recorded: "Gunshot compound comminuted fracture of upper third of right femur; Desault's lung splints applied and simple dressings." Surgeon A. Chapel, U. S. V., reported the man's admission to West's Buildings Hospital, Baltimore, January 19, 1865, from Winchester, with ''gunshot wound, the ball entering near the trochanter of the thigh bone, producing fracture." On May 9th the prisoner was transferred to Fort McHenry. Surgeon W. Hays, U. S. V.. in charge of the Post Hospital at the latter place, reported that the man "died from exhaustion, resulting from excessive suppuration caused by gunshot fracture of head of femur, June 3, 1865." -- 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.
Confederate Soldier. Served as a Sergeant in Company G of the 20th North Carolina Infantry . He was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Fort McHenry in Baltimore,MD. Dying as a result of his injuries shortly after capture. He was interred in the fort's soldier's grave and was reinterred at Loudon Park National Cemetery.
"Case 168. — Sergeant M. D. Ensor, Co. C, 20th North Carolina, aged 26 years, was wounded and captured at Winchester, September 19, 1864. On the following day he was admitted to the Prisoner's Hospital, where Assistant Surgeon H. B. Noble, 2d Ohio Cavalry, recorded: "Gunshot compound comminuted fracture of upper third of right femur; Desault's lung splints applied and simple dressings." Surgeon A. Chapel, U. S. V., reported the man's admission to West's Buildings Hospital, Baltimore, January 19, 1865, from Winchester, with ''gunshot wound, the ball entering near the trochanter of the thigh bone, producing fracture." On May 9th the prisoner was transferred to Fort McHenry. Surgeon W. Hays, U. S. V.. in charge of the Post Hospital at the latter place, reported that the man "died from exhaustion, resulting from excessive suppuration caused by gunshot fracture of head of femur, June 3, 1865." -- 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.
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