KINNE, CHARLES, Private, Co. G, 108th New York Volunteers. Contusion of right parietal by a musket ball. Antietam, September 17th,
1862. Treated at the field hospital of the 3d division of the Second
Corps until the 26th, and then
sent to the Mount Pleasant Hospital at
Washington. On November 2d, he
was furloughed, and subsequently returned to duty. He was discharged from
service at the regimental hospital on December 24th, 1862. Disability reported as "total,"
by Assistant Surgeon William Ely, 108th New York Volunteers. He was
pensioned, and reported by Pension Examining
Surgeon H. M. Montgomery, of Rochester, New York, January, 1863, as having had a series
of pieces of bone exfoliated. Doctor
Montgomery states that the wound was
then discharging pus, but that the patient would probably be free from
disability in a few months, and that he appeared "fat and hearty." In November, 1865, Pension Examining Surgeon J. K. Hyde reported that this
pensioner complained of increase of pain and dizziness on attempting to labor,
and that he had applied for an increase of his pension, in a letter from
Lancaster, Wisconsin; but no disability except dizziness is certified to. In the
army such applicants are regarded as malingerers; but in the civil service a
greater latitude prevails.