Lt. Col. James Theodore Calhoun, (USA)

Nora Calhoun and her husband and child can be see linked at:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74676053/nora-c-calhoun

James Theodore Calhoun from tree Calhoun Family Tree
Record information.
Birth 17 Sep 1838 Rahway, Union, New Jersey, USA
Residence 1850 Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
Marriage 3 May 1865 Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA ...... to Nora
Death 19 Jul 1866 Hartland, Niagara, New York, USA

Burial:
Hazel Wood Cemetery
Colonia, Middlesex County, New Jersey

note that Nora is also known as "Nora D. Calhoun" on her son's gravestone

Civil War Union Army Surgeon. He entered his Civil War service as an Assistant Surgeon in the 74th New York Volunteer Infantry. He was eventually promoted to Major and Chief Surgeon of the unit, and was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel of Volunteers.

He was on duty with the Army of the Potomac during the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When III Corps commander Major General Daniel E. Sickles had his leg mangled by a cannon ball during the second day of the battle, Dr. Calhoun performed the procedure to amputate the General's leg. It can be seen today at the National Museum of Medicine in Washington, DC.

He later served as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Ward United States Army General Hospital, Newark, New Jersey.

He died of cholera on Hart's Island after the end of the conflict.

"He made all his arrangements with great calmness, telling me what he wished done with little
Charlie, in the event of my being taken, and requested me to take him to Rahway and bury him
there. He was conscious almost to the very last, even when he could not speak. When he sank in
the collapse I endeavored to arouse him, and asked him what I should say to his mother for him.
He replied: “Tell my mother that I died a Christian.” His breath was then failing, and grew
fainter and fainter until it ceased. "