PETER DUBRAY -- 91st INFANTRYWHAT A FANTASTIC FIND! Todd Woodward from Peru shared his son Jacob\'spost of his 3rd great grandfather, Peter Dubray of the 91st NY Infantry.Click on the link between the two pictures to see a super enlargement.http://whitney.med.yale.edu/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?c=civilwar&a=d&d=DcivilwarBontecouCAHEA friend from the same regiment, Walter Wheeler, was in the samehospital with a grazing gunshot wound to thehead: http://whitney.med.yale.edu/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=q-00000-00\-\--off-0civilwar\--00-0\--0-10-0\-\--0\-\--0prompt-10\-\--4\-\-\-\--dte\--0-0l\--11-en-Zz-1\-\--10-home-91st\--00-0-1-00-0-0-11-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=civilwar&srp=2&srn=0&cl=search&d=DcivilwarBontecouBAACPeter was born in Redford, the son of Jean-Baptiste Dubreuil, born inCanada, and Melinda Strack, born in Alsace-Lorraine on the borderbetween France and Germany.Besides Peter, his brothers Charles and William joined the 91st in thefall of 1864, Charles and William got through the war unscathed, butPeter was injured at Petersburg on April 12, 1865, after the surrenderof General Lee. We wonder if they meant April 2, the day Petersburgfell, and Walter Wheeler was injured? Peter was born in Redford, and, atthe time of his enlistment was 5\' 2\" with blue eyes, light hair and alight complexion.He was sent to Harewood General Hospital, located on the rolling hillsof the Corcoran Farm near the capital. The hospital was built in a \"V\"pavilion style with a few wooden barracks and a brick farmhouseincorporated into the hospital arrangements. The hospital consisted ofnine wards, with 63 beds each, for a total of 945 beds. To these wereadded hospital tents, each of which held 6 beds. At one point, 312hospital tents were in use on the site, with a capacity of 1,872 beds.In the bed census of Dec. 17, 1864, the hospital had 2,080 beds, with1207 occupied, under the direction of Surgeon R. A. Bontecon, U.S.V.Thank you, Jacob Woodward, and your father, Todd, for sharing, and thankyou to the folks who took the picture 152 years ago and those whorecently scanned it and put it on the internet. It only goes to showthat is you keep looking, something wonderful will show up!
