Cox, Lorenzo H.

MILITARY SERVICE Age: 21, credited to Woodstock, VT Unit(s): 6th VT INF Service: enl 9/27/61, m/i 10/15/61, Pvt, Co. C, 6th VT INF, d/dis 9/6/62 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALS Birth: 09/24/1840, Woodstock, VT Death: 09/06/1862 Burial: Philadelphia National Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone researcher/photographer: Findagrave Memorial #: 0 (There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it) Cenotaph: Highland Cemetery, Woodstock, VT Marker/Plot: Gravestone researcher/photographer: Carolyn Adams 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 (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today)

BURIAL: Copyright notice Philadelphia National Cemetery, PA Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. CENOTAPH: Cenotaph in Highland Cemetery, Woodstock, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there.

Medical Record

Case 201. - Private Lorenzo H. Cox, Co. C, 6th Vt.; admitted August 10, 1862. Typhoid fever. Died Sept. 7. Post-mortem examination next day: Age about 25 years; emaciation extreme; diffuse ecchymoses on skin of body. Lungs healthy; heart natural, containing some liquid blood and a soft black clot in the right ventricle. Spleen small, lake-red on section; liver dull-brown above, slate-color below and uniformly brown on section. Stomach moderately distended, its mucous membrane dirty gray with some vascular injection; ileum and colon inflamed in patches; agminated glands containing black deposit, but otherwise healthy, except two near the colon, which were slightly ulcerated; solitary glands everywhere pigmented. - Act. Ass't Surg. J. Leidy, Satterlee Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.

Joseph K. Barnes, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861-65), Part 3, Volume 1 (Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1883), p. 388.