Bussell, Hiram D.

MILITARY SERVICE Age: 18, credited to Mount Holly, VT Unit(s): 6th VT INF Service: enl 10/3/61, m/i 10/15/61, Pvt, Co. C, 6th VT INF, wdd, Lee's Mill, 4/16/62, d/dis 10/16/63, Harewood Hosp, Washington, DC (chronic diarrhoea) See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALS Birth: 1843, Mount Holly, VT Death: 10/16/1863 Burial: Soldiers Home National Cemetery, Washington, DC Marker/Plot: D 5159 Gravestone researcher/photographer: Tom Ledoux Findagrave Memorial #: 98109842 Cenotaph: New Mechanicsville Cemetery, Mount Holly, VT Marker/Plot: Gravestone researcher/photographer: Jennifer Snoots Findagrave Memorial #: 0 (There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Unknown Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (State digraphs will show that this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldier's home) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today)

BURIAL: Copyright notice Soldiers Home National Cemetery, DC Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. CENOTAPH: Cenotaph in New Mechanicsville Cemetery, Mount Holly, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there.

Medical Record

This case is from Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C.

CASE 290. - Private Hiram D. Bussell, company C, 6th Vermont volunteers; admitted October 10, 1863. Chronic diarrhœa. Died, October 15th. Autopsy: Body very much emaciated. Both lungs were studded with small tubercles, some of which had ulcerated. The heart was normal. The liver was slightly hypertrophied and somewhat fatty; gall-bladder distended. Spleen softened, but normal in weight. Stomach and upper portion of duodenum congested. The jejunum was thickened and presented patches of ulceration; the upper portion of the ileum was in the same condition, the lower portion healthy. The ascending and transverse colon were thickened and studded with ulcers; the descending colon and rectum were much thickened and extensively ulcerated. The kidneys were enlarged; near the middle of the right kidney was an abscess of some size.

Joseph K. Barnes, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861-65), Part 3, Volume 2 (Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1883), p. 443.