E.C. Phetteplace

Federal (USV)

Captain

Elhanan C. Phetteplace

(1822 - 1889)

Home State: Michigan

Command Billet: Company Commander

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

From Tuscola, he enrolled as Second Lieutenant in Company I, Seventh Michigan Infantry at its organization on 28 June 1861. He was 38 years old. He was commissioned Captain on 2 September 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged from the 7th Infantry on 11 May 1863, for disability on account of wounds. He was appointed Captain, 8th Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps on 19 August 1863, and discharged 31 July 1866.

References & notes

Basic service data from the Adjutant General1 and the Register of the Volunteer Forces2. Further detail from family genealogists. His picture from the Scott D Hann Collection, as published in Military Images (September/October 2002).

Birth

10/22/1822; Chenango County, NY

Death

10/20/1889; Bear Lake Township, MI; burial in Maple Hill Cemetery, Walloon Lake, MI

Notes

1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 7, pg. 82 [AotW citation 12007]

2 US Army, Adjutant General, Official Army Register of the Volunteer Forces, U. S. Army, 8 vols., Washington, DC: Adjutant General's Office, 1867, Part VIII, pg. 42 [AotW citation 12008]

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