Henry Taring Turner

In 1860 he was a 24 year old medical student at Lodi in Columbia County, WI. He enlisted on 12 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 16 August.

He was slightly wounded in the hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was again slightly wounded, in the right foot and thigh, in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864. He was treated at the Baptist Church Hospital in Alexandria, VA, then at Mower/Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia to the end of August 1864. He mustered out in Madison, WI on 1 September 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.

He returned to Wisconsin, but by 1870 was a physician at Lyle in Mower County, MN. In 1880 he was a doctor at Kasson in Dodge County, MN, and he began receiving a veteran's pension for disability about 1881 (raised to $24 per month in 1910). He moved to Washington in about 1888 and by 1900 and to 1910 he was a practicing physician in Seattle. He and his wife Abbie were admitted to the Washington Veteran's Home in Port Orchard, WA on 3 March 1910, and he died there on 16 June 1913 of "senile decay and bystitis."

His service information from the State of Wisconsin1 and his Compiled Service Records.2. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Kathy Steckelberg for sharing her research in his CSRs and pension files.

He married Talitha Currie Potter (1839-1907) in September 1859 and they had 4 daughters. He married again, the widow Abbie S. Smith (previously Green, later Ritchey; c. 1848-1922) in July 1907.

His 1910 application for admission [pdf] to the Veteran's Home is online from Washington State Archives.

02/11/1837; New York City, NY

06/16/1913; Port Orchard, WA; burial in Washington Veterans Home Cemetery, Retsil, WA