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Federal (USV)

Assistant Surgeon

Charles Carroll McGlaughlin

(c. 1835 - c. 1930)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Medical

Unit: 95th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a physician in Philadelphia. He enrolled and was commissioned Assistant Surgeon, 95th Pennsylvania Infantry on 15 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He treated wounded soldiers at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He was at the Smoketown Hospital near the battlefield into May 1863. He was discharged on 2 November 1864 at the end of his term of service, but reenlisted on appointment to regimental Surgeon on 1 December 1864. He mustered out on 17 July 1865.

After the War

By 1880 he was again a physician in Philadelphia.

References & notes

His basic service from Bates.1 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1880, and his 1861 application for a US Navy Surgeon's commission, online from Douglas Arbittier, MD.

He married Annie C. Finnigan (c. 1853-) and they had at least 4 sons between 1875 and 1883.

Birth

c. 1835; Marcus Hook, PA

Death

c. 1930

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 22915  [AotW citation 31337]