Edward Osburn

He enlisted and mustered on 16 July 1861 as a Private in Company H, 9th Pennsylvania Reserves.

He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 by a gunshot which

entered the right side between the clavicle [collarbone] and first rib, passed through the upper portion of the lung, and emerged at the lower border of the scapula [shoulder blade].

He was treated at a nearby farmhouse then at a field hospital in Middletown, MD. He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #3 in Frederick, MD on 1 October and transferred to GH#1 in Frederick on 24 January 1863. By that time he was very emaciated and weak, and had a severe cough. At the end of the month he was coughing up pus and blood, but by 15 February he had improved enough to walk about. On 30 March a piece of bone came away from his clavicle and by mid-April his chest had noticeably sunken over his right lung. He was transferred to Baltimore and was discharged there for disability on 12 November 1863. At that time a pension examiner reported his right arm was "useless, fingers partially paralyzed" and air was still passing through his exit wound.

In 1871 a Pittsburgh, PA examining board found his arm and hand still "useless" and "his body emaciated and feeble." In 1880 he was a letter carrier in Pittsburgh and at the US Veterans' Census of 1890 he was living in nearby Avalon, PA.

His service basics from Bates.1. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR,3 both as Edward Osborn. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amanda J. Amberson (1848-1934) by 1880 and they had 4 children between 1883 and 1892, the last, daughter Clara, was born after his death.

1838; New York City, NY

04/01/1891; Pittsburgh, PA; burial in Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA