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(1844 - 1909)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents and 5 younger siblings on their farm at Waupun, WI. He enlisted in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry on 11 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot through his hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #2 in Frederick, MD on 28 September, transferred to Philadelphia on 1 October, and discharged for disability on 26 January 1863. He reenlisted on 5 January 1865 and mustered out of service with his company on 18 July 1865.
After the War
He was back farming with his parents and siblings at Fox Lake in Dodge County, MN in 1870 and was a widowed laborer in Redwood Falls, MN by 1880.
References & notes
His service basics from Bryant.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-.
He married Nellie E McKay (1858-) in October 1880 and they had a daughter. He had 2 sons (b. 1870, 1872) from a previous marriage, spouse not found.
Birth
07/31/1844; Richfield, NY
Death
07/25/1909
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. 419 - 421 [AotW citation 15224]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #442 [AotW citation 34318]