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(1836 - 1888)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
From Putnam County, IN, he mustered as Sergeant, Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry on 7 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left side and arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 11 January 1863.
After the War
By 1870 he was a hotel keeper at Sandford in Vigo County, IN but in 1880 he was a miller at Owensburg in Greene County, IN. He was also licensed as a local preacher in about 1880 and was a justice of the peace in Owensburg at the time of his death in 1888.
References & notes
Casualty information from Nelson1. His service from the Adjutant General.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Lydia Barker (1840-1874) in November 1863 and they had a daughter Alma (1864-1951). He married again, Harriet Webster (1835-1902) in August 1875.
Birth
10/31/1836; Edgar County, IL
Death
08/03/1888; Owensburg, IN; burial in Emanuel Hatfield Cemetery, Owensburg, 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. 135 [AotW citation 16468]
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. 278 [AotW citation 33616]