Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
From Fennimore, he enlisted in Company H, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 29 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, and lost the use of his right eye.
The rest of the War
Discharged for disability on 5 February 1862.
References & notes
Basic information from State of Wisconsin1.
1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 565 - 566 [AotW citation 10640]