One of the surgeons who treated him was Truman Squire, 89th New York. Squire was in charge of the Locust Spring field hospital near the battlefield after Antietam and kept a list of his patients there with broken femurs (thigh bones). It's pretty cool to see "Ard G.W." on that list.
(from the Chemung County (NY) Historical Society: http://chemungcountyhistoricalsociety.blogspot.com/2017/07/dr-truman-h-squire-civil-war-surgeon.html)
Whoa! Thanks Brian. Ive never seen a roster of specific injuries at one hospital before. This one is of gun shot fractures femur at the Battle of Antietam and it's fascinating!!!
If anyone ever wondered if wounded CS prisoners received good treatment at Union hospitals, this should help clear it up. At least in this one hospital, looks like wounded CS prisoners were twice as likely to be operated on and twice as likely to recover than Union soldiers being treated at the same hospital, during the same time period.
I see five wounded CS POWs on the roster for Locust Spring field hospital.
Robert Hutchinson, Pvt. Company B, 7th South Carolina. Wounded: September 17, 1862. Treatment: Amputation. Result: recovered. Remarks: secondary amputation.
George W. Ard, Pvt. Company K, 2nd Georgia. Wounded: September 17, 1862. Treatment: Amputation. Result: recovered. Remarks: complication of elbow.
P. K. Williams, Corporal Company E, 2nd Georgia. Wounded: September 17, 1862. Treatment: simple [simple dressings; no amputation] Result: recovered. Remarks: slight deformity.
J. F. Gartot, Pvt. Company A, 8th Louisiana. Wounded: September 17, 1862. Treatment: simple [simple dressings; no amputation] Result: died. Remarks: November 26 - bone united.
Edmund Davis, Pvt. Company I, 35th Mississippi. Wounded: September 17, 1862. Treatment: simple [simple dressings; no amputation] Result: recovered. Remarks: evusion toe - ball cut out. [evusion may refer to an avulsion injury in which a limb is torn off?]
So of the five wounded CS POWs:
80% 4 were operated on (3 by Amputation surgery and 1 to remove a ball.)
20% 1 died (he was not one of the ones who was operated on.)
80% recovered (4; at least temporarily.)
100% of those who were operated on recovered
Of the 17 wounded Union soldiers:
35% were operated on (6 of 17; 5 Amputation surgery & 1 had an excision surgery.)
65% died. (11 of 17; 6 simple/no amputation; 4 amputation; 1 excision)
35% recovered (6 of 17; at least temporarily.)
16% of those operated on recovered.