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Federal (USV)

Private

Peter O. Alloway

(c. 1839 - 1864)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Vigo County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company F, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the chest and head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 15 December 1863 and transferred to Company B of the 20th Indiana Infantry on 6 June 1864. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to the abdomen on 19 June 1864, place not given, and died in an Army hospital in Alexandria, VA on 15 August 1864.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service basics from the Adjutant General2 with details from his pension card and his daughter's pension application, both online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1839; Bartholomew County, IN

Death

08/15/1864; Alexandria, VA; burial in Alexandria National Cemetery, Alexandria, VA

Notes

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. 114 [AotW citation 16123]

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. 282 [AotW citation 33622]

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