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Federal (USV)

Private

John W. Hoover

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 36th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents James & Permelia and his 6 younger siblings on their modest farm at Jackson Court House, Jackson County, OH. He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 36th Ohio Infantry on 28 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his leg in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 16 September and his leg was amputated, but he died of wounds there on 6 October 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from Ohio,2 who says his wound was in the right arm. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843 in OH

Death

10/06/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3653]

2 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95 [AotW citation 25095]

3 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 #3.721 [AotW citation 25096]

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