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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry H. Axton

(1844 - 1880)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

Probably an orphan, in 1850 he was listed as deaf, and lived with farmer Henry Edmunds and family in Posey County, IN. By 1860 he was a laborer on the Samuel Whitewood farm at Newport in Vermillion County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 28 August 1862 as a Private in Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the face in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability in March 1863.

After the War

In 1870 he was a laborer at Newport, IN.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850-1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Catherine Dawson (1848-) in April 1868 and they had 2 children.

Birth

12/01/1844 in IN

Death

03/26/1880; burial in Newport Cemetery, Newport, IN

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. 118 [AotW citation 16198]

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. 288 [AotW citation 33624]

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