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(1841 - 1924)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
From Putnam County, IN, he mustered as Private, Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry on 7 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at hospitals in Frederick, MD and West Philadelphia, PA. He mustered out with his company on 6 June 1864 in Indianapolis, IN.
After the War
By 1870 he was a farmer at Bloomfield in Greene County, IN and in 1880, while still farming, was also an innkeeper there. He was still farming in Greene County in 1900 but in 1910 owned a livery stable and lived with his daughter Ida (Haywood) and her husband in Bloomfield. By 1920 he was retired and boarded with Franklin Ramsey and his large family in Bloomfield. He was admitted to the Danville, IL branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers on 24 February 1922 and transferred to the branch at Hampton, VA on 30 March. He died there on 22 February 1924.
References & notes
Birth
10/22/1841; Scotland, IN
Death
02/22/1924; Hampton, VA; burial in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Park, IN
1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 113 [AotW citation 16116]
2 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 279 [AotW citation 33614]
3 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938, registration #25870 [AotW citation 33615]