Medical Histories of Union Generals by Jack D. Welsh

Author:Jack D. Welsh [Welsh, Jack D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN: 9781612774626
Publisher: The Kent State University Press
Published: 2013-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

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FREDERICK WEST LANDER • Born on December 17, 1821, at Salem, Massachusetts. Lander performed a number of surveys for the railroads before the Civil War. After serving as an aide to Gen. George B. McClellan, he was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers to rank from May 1861. He was wounded in the calf of the leg during a skirmish at Edwards Ferry (Ball’s Bluff), Maryland, on October 22, 1861. A few minutes later, he and his aide rode up to a surgeon, whom the aide asked to examine Lander. When the surgeon pulled the bootstrap out of the hole where it had been carried by the ball, the general swore “a blue streak” and vowed he would go to the ferry before having anything done. The surgeon later reported that he was rather glad to get him off of his hands. Relieved of his command and on medical leave, he was in Washington, D.C., the next month. On February 14, 1862, he applied for relief from command since his health was too broken for him to do any serious work. Two weeks later he was mortally stricken by a “congestive chill.” After sleeping under the influence of morphine injections for twenty hours, he died on March 2, 1862, at Camp Chase, Paw Paw, Virginia.1 He was buried in the Broad Street Burial Ground in Salem, Massachusetts.

1.CSR; OR, vol. 5:66, 338, 406, 647; vol. 51, pt. 1:531, 544–46; MOLLUS 26:279.

JACOB GARTNER LAUMAN • Born January 20, 1813, in Taneytown, Maryland. Lauman was a businessman in Iowa and entered Federal service as colonel of the 7th Iowa Infantry in July 1861. During the late summer and fall of 1861 he had chronic diarrhea and malarial fever. The assistant regimental surgeon treated him in camp. Lauman was still sick when he went into the battle of Belmont, Missouri, on November 7, 1861. He sustained a wound in his left thigh when a minié ball entered from the front and passed close to the femur. He was assisted to the rear of the tents where he remained a short time. He was placed on an artillery gun and taken further to the rear. He was still able to take part in the retreat back to the boats. The surgeon stated the wound was slow to heal because of the debilitated condition of Lauman’s system caused by his prior sickness. He went on sick leave to his home in Burlington, Iowa, rejoined his regiment in January 1862, and served at Fort Donelson. In March he was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers and commanded a brigade at Shiloh. During the spring of 1863 he had a slight stroke. He was home on leave in July after Vicksburg and returned in September. Lauman again went home on furlough in January, and on February 9, 1864, he had a severe second stroke. Lauman never recovered enough to return to the field or even to attend to his private affairs. He was mustered out of service in August 1865.

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