Great Wartime Stencil of Capt. J.B. Wilson of Co.H.15th, Maine Regt. / On-hold
Great Wartime Stencil of Capt. J.B. Wilson of Co.H.15th, Maine Regt.- Inventory Number: IDE 179 / On-hold
Johannes B. Wilson (John Butler Wilson), an 1854 graduate of Colby College, Massachusetts enlisted age 28 at Exeter, Maine where he was a physician and was commissioned Captain of Company H, 15th Maine Infantry on December 21, 1861. Company H served at Ship Island, Mississippi then at Carrollton, Louisiana for five months where the Regiment suffered heavily from malaria. They were removed to Pensacola, Florida to recuperate, where Captain Wilson served as Provost Marshall, before the 15th ME moved to New Orleans with the Dept. of the Gulf on June 21, 1863. During it’s first year of service the Regiment lost 329 men without seeing battle.
On October 20, 1863, Wilson was mustered in as Surgeon of the 2nd Regiment of Engineers, Corps d’Afrique and from January of 1864 he was detached as Medical Director of the Post at Fort Esperanza, Texas through April of 1864. The Regiment was redesignated the 96th USCT on April 4, 1864. Brigadier General Benjamin Stone Roberts, commander of 1st Division, XIX Army Corps detached Wilson in charge of Medical Purveyors & Stores in New Orleans on May 26th.
In September of 1864 Surgeon Wilson was on detached service as Acting Medical Inspector per Special Orders No. 19, then was placed in charge of the Post Hospital at Fort Gaines, Alabama on October 20, 1864 by Special Orders No. 36, HQ, Dept. of West Florida and South Alabama.
He resigned on a Surgeon’s Certificate given by Surgeon Charles Beldon White (Post Surgeon, New Orleans) due to chronic dyspepsia and was honorably discharged per Special Orders No. 10, HQ Department of the Gulf on January 10, 1865.
Sources: Cullums Register, 838.
The Story of the Maine Fifteenth, Henry A. Shorey, Press of the Bridgton News, 1890.
Comes housed in 6 x 8 riker display case with black velvet and descriptive card.
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Inventory Number: IDE 179 / On-hold