Open main menu
Open main menu
![[no picture yet]](images/none.gif)
[no picture yet]
(1840 - 1930)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
Son of an anchor maker, in 1860 he was a 19 year old anchor forger living with his parents and 6 siblings in Raynham, MA. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Sergeant in Company E, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 18 October 1862 and mustered out on 24 June 1864.
After the War
By 1870 he was a stove liner in Taunton, MA but by 1910 was a miner in Reno, NV. In 1930 he was retired and lived in Warner, NH.
References & notes
Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Hannah King Hall (1842-1922) in August 1864 and they had a daughter Mary (1865-1920). He married (or just lived with) Carolyn “Carrie” Greeley (1865-1939) in about 1902.
Birth
10/29/1840; Raynham, MA
Death
08/26/1930; Warner, NH; burial in Sunny Plain Cemetery, Bradford, NH
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. 139 [AotW citation 16535]
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. 117; Vol. 4, p. 280 [AotW citation 33621]