[1864 Civil War Document Signed regarding Pvt. Duane L. Tyler, 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery Regiment, serving in Petersburg, Virginia, but now a Patient in the McClellan U.S. Army General Hospital in Philadelphia].

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Civil war document signed concerning Pvt. Duane L. Tyler of Battery M of the 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery Regiment, lately serving in Petersburg, Virginia.

The document comprises a request for a “Descriptive List and Account of Pay and Clothing” for Private Tyler who, since May 16, 1864, was a patient in the McClellan U.S. Army General Hospital in Philadelphia.

The hospital’s form letter requesting the data was interestingly printed. It could be refolded and sent as a pre-addressed “Soldier’s Letter,” directed back to U.S. Army Surgeon John Campbell, Medical Director of ther Department of the Susquehanna.

The 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery Regiment (112th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers)—the largest regiment to serve in the Union Army—fought in the Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–7, 1864, so it is probable Tyler was wounded in that action and subsequently transported to McClellan U.S. Army General Hospital for treatment and rehabilitation. The document notes that Private Tyler was returned to duty on March 28, 1865.

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