Harrison William Hartzell

He went to Tiffin, Seneca County, OH in 1848 with his family. In 1860 he was an 18 year old worker on the David Huss farm near Melmore in Seneca County. He enlisted at Tiffin as a Private in Company I, 8th Ohio Infantry on 10 August 1861 (or 30 March 1862).

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left cheek, mouth, and tongue in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

He was treated at a field hospital at Keedysville, briefly admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 24 September, then sent on to Philadelphia, PA. He returned to his unit in September 1863. He was wounded again, in action in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864 and transferred to Company A, 4th Ohio Battalion on 1 August 1864. He was discharged on 24 April 1865.

In 1870 he was a plasterer living with his parents in Noblesville, Hamilton County, IN. He was granted an invalid veteran's pension for his Antietam wound in November 1897.

Service information from the State of Ohio,1 as Harrison Hance and Harrison Hatzell. Hospital details from the Patient List,2 as H. Hance. Personal details from family genealogists, notably Stephen J. Hartzell, and the US Census of 1860 and 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Jason Langhals for the poke to improve his bio.

He married Ellen Clark (1854-1878) in 1872 and they had 3 children. He married again, Catherine Shuff (1851-1921) in 1884.

12/25/1841; Lehigh County, PA

06/03/1917; Tiffin, OH; burial in Rock Run Cemetery, Tiffin, OH