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(? - 1864)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
From Johnson County, IN, he mustered as Private, Company H, 19th Indiana Infantry on 29 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by "conoidal bullet wound through mouth" in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, his tongue cut and jaw broken.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a field hospital near the battlefield, admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 23 September, and sent on to the 1st Division Hospital in Alexandria, VA on 29 September. He had surgery on 30 October to remove a large piece of loose bone from the angle of his jaw, and on 4 November to find and remove the bullet, embedded behind his jaw. He recovered sufficiently to return to duty on 18 November.
He was killed in action in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864.
References & notes
Death
05/05/1864; Wilderness, VA
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. 146 [AotW citation 16942]
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 #4.363 [AotW citation 20685]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 363 [AotW citation 31418]
4 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, pg. 403 [AotW citation 20684]