He stood 5’10” with blue eyes, light hair and a light complexion and was 23 years old and probably working as a bricklayer in Barry County when he enlisted in Company F on May 13, 1861. He was eventually detached as a teamster and was serving in the Brigade trains in October of 1862, and driving an ammunition train from November through January of 1863. On May 2, 1863, during the early action at Chancellorsville, Virginia, Timothy was shot in the right side of his head
by a round ball which struck him on the right side of the OS frontis, about an inch and a half anterior to the coronal structure, fracturing both tables of the bone. Patient states that he was insensible for a long time, but finally recovered himself so far s to be able to walk to the field hospital where the surgeon extracted the ball. He entered this hospital [St. Mary’s in Detroit] Aug. 3d, wound in a bad condition -- the probe revealing necrosed bone, an operation was deemed necessary. The patient was accordingly placed under the influence of chloroform, and the wounded surface of the cranium exposed by making two incisions at right angles, and dissecting away the flaps, a necrosed ring of bone was then removed completely encircling the original wound, 1/4 inch in width . . . so that the dura-mater was exposed for a space as large as a half dollar. The wound was properly dressed, gave the patient but little trouble, and is now nearly well.
A later medical analysis revealed that Timothy
was wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 2d, 1863, by a round musket ball, which struck the right side of the frontal bone, about one inch and a half anterior to coronal suture; on May 25th, sent to Judiciary Square Hospital, Washington, and on August 3rd admitted to St. Mary’s Hospital, Detroit, Michigan. The wound was in a bad condition, and one examination the probe revealed necrosed bone. A crucial incision was made, and a ring of necrosed bone one-fourth of an inch in width and comprising both tables was removed, which had completely encircled the original wound. The operation exposed the dura mater for a space as large as half a dollar. The injury gave the patient but little trouble; he recovered rapidly; was discharged November 3, 1863, and pensioned. On August 12th, 1867, Pension Examiner J. B. Scovil reports this man to be subject to vertigo and severe neuralgic pain in the head. He rates his disability three-fourths and permanent.
On November 28, 1863, Timothy applied for and received a pension (no. 23692); his surname was listed as “Pender.”
Timothy gave his mailing address on his discharge paper as Grand Rapids but he eventually settled in Detroit.
Timothy married Canadian Mrs. Sophie Raymond Holmes (1840-1898) and they had at least one child: Mary (born 1872).
By 1870 he was living with his wife and two children in Detroit’s 4th Ward. In 1880 timothy was working as a and living with his wife, daughter Mary and stepson George Holmes and stepdaughter Matilda Holmes in Detroit. In 1883 and 1888 Timothy was living in Detroit, and in 1890 he was residing at 181 St. Aubin Street in Detroit (listed as “Pindergast, alias Pinder”). He was probably residing in Detroit’s 9th ward by 1894.
It is quite possible that he died on February 9, 1910, in Dayton, Ohio, and was returned to Detroit for burial in Mount Elliot cemetery, Detroit, on the Prendergast-Holmes lot, along with his wife Sophia.
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