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Federal (USV)

Private

David E. Berry

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of a saddler, in 1860 he was a 20 year old day laborer living with his parents and 6 younger siblings at Roseville in Parke County, IN. He enlisted and mustered in Terra Haute, IN on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1863

The rest of the War

He mustered out on 6 June 1864 in Indianapolis, IN.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1, who has him as D.E. Boney. His service from the Adjutant General.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1840 in OH

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. 136 [AotW citation 16485]

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. 287 [AotW citation 33625]

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