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(c. 1836 - 1862)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
His father died when he was about a year old, and he helped support his mother as an adult. In 1860 he was a 24 year old S. B. (?) Clerk boarding with dressmaker Mrs E. A. Sisler in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, IN. He enlisted and mustered in Terra Haute, IN on 7 June 1861 as First Sergeant of Company E, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was appointed First Lieutenant on 15 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the lung in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a private house in Sharpsburg, but died of wounds on 23 (or 24 or 29) September 1862.
After the War
His mother Eliza began receiving a pension in July 1867 (backdated to 24 September 1862) based on his service.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1836; New York City, NY
Death
09/23/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, 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. 121 [AotW citation 16251]
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. 2, p. 116; Vol. 4, p. 280 [AotW citation 33618]