{"id":5049,"date":"2017-07-06T13:35:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2017-07-06T13:35:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:35:07","slug":"a-medical-descriptive-list-documents-the-end-time-for-civil-war-veteran-john-ehmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5049","title":{"rendered":"A Medical Descriptive List Documents the End Time for Civil War Veteran John Ehmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Ehmen died in a military hosptial in Quincy, Illinois, on 12 November 1864.\u00a0He was one of many soldiers who died not from wounds but from an illness that could not be controlled.<\/p>\n<p>Admitted to the military hospital on 25 October 1864, \u00a0the twenty-six year old soldier had been suffering from diarrhea for several months at the time of his admission. His emaciated condition likely is what caused the admitting doctor to indicate that Ehmen would &#8220;not live long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ehmen was treated with turpentine emulsion and apparently given opium and a &#8220;milk punch&#8221; as well. There was no improvement in his condition and by November 10th he was barely able to speak. Ehmen died two days later.<\/p>\n<p>Ehmen was not buried on the hospital grounds as he had family who lived relatively close. His body was taken to the nearby Hebron Cemetery near Camp Point, Adams County, Illinois, for burial.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;Medical Descriptive List&#8221; was located in his compiled military service record at the National Archives.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5051\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ehman_john_119ill_vol_inf_cmsr_pg018-780x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ehman_john_119ill_vol_inf_cmsr_pg018-780x1024.jpg 780w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ehman_john_119ill_vol_inf_cmsr_pg018-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ehman_john_119ill_vol_inf_cmsr_pg018-768x1008.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ehman_john_119ill_vol_inf_cmsr_pg018.jpg 1305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Ehmen died in a military hosptial in Quincy, Illinois, on 12 November 1864.\u00a0He was one of many soldiers who died not from wounds but from an illness that could not be controlled. Admitted to the military hospital on 25 October 1864, \u00a0the twenty-six year old soldier had been suffering from diarrhea for several months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}