(1836 - 1919)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
From Burnett, he enlisted in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry on 25 April 1861. He was appointed Corporal (date not given). He was wounded in action at Cedar Mountain, VA in August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
His leg was amputated and he was discharged for wounds on 17 February 1863.
After the War
He married Anne Elizabeth Cooper (1838-1919) on 9 February 1876 in Waupun, WI. He was listed there as a "landlord" in the 1900 US Census.
References & notes
Birth
07/1836 in OH
Death
1919; burial in Burnett Union Cemetery, Burnett, WI
1 Bryant, Edwin Eustace, History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Madison: Arthur H Clark Co. for the Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891, pp. 415 - 419 [AotW citation 15217]