. Field, fort and fleet ... o Philadelphia, and from the latter place he madehis way to St. Lukes Hospital, New York. After having been ex-amined by the attending surgeons, they came to the conclusion thathe could not survive seventy-two hours. He did survive however,and on the eighth day of August, 1862, two months after havingbeen shot, he rejoined his regiment at Newport News. On the dayfollowing, General Meagher appointed him on his staff, and in thatcapacityhe participated in the campaigns of the second battle ofBull Run, and the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. Dur-ing the latter
. Field, fort and fleet ... o Philadelphia, and from the latter place he madehis way to St. Lukes Hospital, New York. After having been ex-amined by the attending surgeons, they came to the conclusion thathe could not survive seventy-two hours. He did survive however,and on the eighth day of August, 1862, two months after havingbeen shot, he rejoined his regiment at Newport News. On the dayfollowing, General Meagher appointed him on his staff, and in thatcapacityhe participated in the campaigns of the second battle ofBull Run, and the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. Dur-ing the latter engagement he was taken with hemorrhages of theinjured lung; he returned to Washington, was pronounced by theSurgeon General of the army to be in consumption arising from thewound of the lung, and in September, 1862, was honorably mus-tered out of the service on account of disability. When at Hospital, Lieutenant OConnor received the following letter,with his Second Lieutenants commission, from his Brigade General:. ? p Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield, U. S. A. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHE8. 4 1 HEADQUARTERS IN THE Brigade, First Division, Second Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, July, Dear Lieutenant. It gratifies me truly and thoroughly to forward you your commission asSecond Lieutenant in the regiment on which your brave conduct, the first of June,has reflected such sterling credit. Were it a Captains commission I should feelfar happier in forwarding it, for such promotion would be worthier of your ac-ceptance, an accomplished and intrepid young soldier as you are. I pray toheaven you may soon rejoin us, and in this prayer there is not a man in the IrishBrigade who does not warmly unite. I am, with sincere esteem, Your heartily attached friend and General, THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER. On the eighth day of December, 1863, he was re-commissioned asSecond Lieutenant, in the Invalid Corps, and was assigned to dutyas Adjutant of the Provost prison at New York. On the t
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