Ulcus

[lelliott19]

Ulcus - medical term for a local defect or excavation of the surface of an organ or tissue, produced by sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue.

Whatever it was, it kept this soldier out of service for 9 days and kept him out of the fight at Gettysburg. By the time he was returned to duty, his division was enroute to Gettysburg at Culpeper Courthouse.

 

[EJ Zander]

Some pretty painful looking pics online.

 

[FarawayFriend]

In every bad there is something good, it seems.
I can imagine how that soldier suffered - and how he embraced his ulcus pain after he had learned that so many of his comrades would never feel any pain anymore ...