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(1840 - 1914)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he and his brother Cornelius were living with the Lane family in Peru, Miami County, IN, and both were painters. He mustered as Private, Company F, 19th Indiana Infantry on 29 July 1861 and was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the hip/groin in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #3 in the Presbyterian Church in Frederick, MD on 1 October 1862, and was discharged there for wounds on 20 December 1862.
After the War
In 1880 he was a house carpenter in El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas.
References & notes
His basic service information from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Jordan Carnes for the pointer to Collins.
He married Amanda J Bougher (1857-1880) in Monroe County, IA in April 1876 and they had 2 children and adopted another. He married again, Hannah S Holly (1865-1901) in July 1883 in Butler County, KS, and they had 4 more by 1896.
His brother Cornelius (1842-1890) was also a Corporal in Company F.
Birth
02/19/1840; Connersville, IN
Death
12/17/1914; Pawnee, OK; burial in Lela Cemetery, Noble County, OK
1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, pg. 400 [AotW citation 27896]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #288 [AotW citation 27897]