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(1841 - 1916)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer living with his parents and brother John on their small place in Cadiz, Green County, WI. He enlisted on 30 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded by a gunshot to his chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 24 September and transferred out on 29 September for exchange. He returned to duty, reenlisted for the war, and mustered out on 18 July 1865 in Madison, WI.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was farming his own place back in Cadiz, WI. In 1900 he was a day laborer in Dallas County, IA and in 1910 was working odd jobs in Des Moines, IA.
References & notes
Wound and casualty information from Nelson,1 the Patient List,2 which has him in Company B, and a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. His service basics from the Roster.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mariah Phillips (1853-) in June 1869. He married again, Harriet Annabelle (or Hannabelle) “Hattie” Reynolds (or 1867-1965) in 1885 and they had 7 children between 1887 and 1906.
Birth
11/06/1841; Jefferson County, PA
Death
11/23/1916; Boone, IA; burial in Rose Hill Cemetery, Boone, IA
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. 127 [AotW citation 16346]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.426 [AotW citation 34316]
3 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, p. 400 [AotW citation 34312]