WOUNDED AT SECOND BULL RUN BATTLE

This is the battle where my great grandfather was wounded while charging the enemy. From what I have been able to figure, He was hit in the muscle part of the right arm between the elbow and shoulder, probably from the ball of a musket.

This is what he wrote on one of the several pension applications after the war. This one was dated March 14, 1885. Quote

"At the Battle of Bulls Run while charging the enemy who were posted behind an Embankment of the A & O RR. I was also taken prisonor and had it not been for the kindness of an officer of the C.S. Army I should not now be making an application for pension. The shot having passed through the muselor part of the arm severing an artery and when captured was nearly dead from loss of blood." unquote. On another application he said the Confederate officer was "an officer of the 1st Louisiana Infantry (REB)".

He was given an immediate parole and returned to his unit. He then was transported by ambulance to Grosners(sc) House Hospital in Alexandria, VA. This took six days, as he entered the hospital on Sepember 6, 1862. He said his whole arm had turned black from the compress on his arm. I have not been able find out why it took 6 days to travel the 25 miles to Alexandria or what he would have been doing for those 6 days.

The records I got from New York State said he was releast from hospital on December 15, 1862. He wrote on his pension app that he was there until January 1, 1863.

I would like to mention here that the second battle of Bull Run was by no means a secondary battle. The first battle of Bull Run occured on July 21, 1861, the second on August 29 and 30, 1862. Both were very significant victories for the Confederate Army.