William T. Barrett was the son of John and Mary (Southern) Barrett and married Ellen T. Dow of Woburn. He was a clerk before enlisting as a private in Company K (Woburn National Rangers), 39th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, on July 27, 1862. He was mustered into national service on August 22, 1862. Approximately five months later he was stricken with typhoid fever and was brought to Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D.C., where he died on January 29, 1863, at age 24.
"Post-Mortem Records of the Continued Fevers. – Cases Reported as Typhoid Fever, the Clinical History Insufficient or Absent -- Case 148.— Private William T. Barrett, Co. K, 39th Mass., was admitted Dec. 24, 1862, with typhoid fever. Bronchitis set in about a week before his death, which occurred Jan. 29, 1833. -- Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume I. (3rd Medical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1888.
William T. Barrett was the son of John and Mary (Southern) Barrett and married Ellen T. Dow of Woburn. He was a clerk before enlisting as a private in Company K (Woburn National Rangers), 39th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, on July 27, 1862. He was mustered into national service on August 22, 1862. Approximately five months later he was stricken with typhoid fever and was brought to Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D.C., where he died on January 29, 1863, at age 24.
"Post-Mortem Records of the Continued Fevers. – Cases Reported as Typhoid Fever, the Clinical History Insufficient or Absent -- Case 148.— Private William T. Barrett, Co. K, 39th Mass., was admitted Dec. 24, 1862, with typhoid fever. Bronchitis set in about a week before his death, which occurred Jan. 29, 1833. -- Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume I. (3rd Medical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1888.
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