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(c. 1839 - 1864)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
From Vigo County, IN, he enlisted and mustered at Terra Haute, IN 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, mortally, by a gunshot to the abdomen on 18 or 19 June 1864 at Petersburg, VA, and admitted to the 2nd Division US Army Hospital (Sickel Barracks General Hospital) in Alexandria, VA on 28 June. He died there of his wound on 15 August 1864.
References & notes
Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service basics from the Adjutant General.2 Further military and personal details from his daughter's pension application online from fold3 and family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Louisa Woodard (1841-1859) in January 1858 and they had a daughter Sarah Elizabeth (1859-1872). Louisa died a week after Sarah was born. Sarah lived with her maternal grandfather and began receiving a US pension in March 1867 from her father's service, dating back to his death.
Birth
c. 1839; Bartholomew County, IN
Death
08/15/1864; Alexandria, VA; burial in Alexandria National Cemetery, Alexandria, VA
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]