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(1843 - 1910)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 18, from Jordan in Green County, WI, he enlisted on 1 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 24 September, transferred to Philadelphia on 9 November, and discharged 28 March 1863 for disability.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Cadiz in Green County, WI, but by 1900 he was in Antelope County, NE and in 1910 he had retired and lived alone in Oakdale, NE.
References & notes
His service basics from Bryant.1 He's also on a list of casualties in a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Catharine Brown (1846-1882) in September 1864 and they had 6 children.
Birth
04/24/1843 in OH
Death
12/23/1910; Oakdale, NE; burial in Oakdale Cemetery, Oakdale, NE
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 15227]
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 #4.432 [AotW citation 34321]