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(1836 - 1924)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
From Waupun, he enlisted on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry. He was appointed Corporal and Sergeant, dates not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam - his "finger shot off" - on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again, at Dallas, GA in 1864 and he mustered out of service with his company on 18 July 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a blacksmith in Burnett and Waupun, WI. He'd retired in Waupun by 1910.
References & notes
His service basics from Bryant1 with wound detail from a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Catherine Hally (1841-1934) and they had 5 children between 1874 and 1883.
Birth
1836 in NY
Death
1924; burial in Calvary Cemetery, Waupun, 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. 419 - 421 [AotW citation 15228]