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E.H.C. Cavins
(1832 - 1910)
Home State: Indiana
Education: Indiana University Law School, Class of 1853
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
A 29 year old lawyer in Bloomfield, IN, he enrolled and mustered on 7 June 1861 as Captain of Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry, his commissioned dated 11 June. He was appointed Major on 11 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on 22 January 1863 and may have been appointed Colonel after the death of Colonel Coons in May 1864. He mustered out with the regiment on 20 June 1864.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1910 he practiced law and farmed at Bloomfield, IN.
References & notes
Casualty information from Nelson.1 Service basics from the Adjutant General.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by Eric Lowman.
He married Anna Marie Downing (1836-1907) and they had 5 children between 1856 and 1866.
Birth
04/16/1832; Greene County, IN
Death
09/09/1910; Greene County, IN; burial in Grandview Cemetery, Bloomfield, 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. 152 [AotW citation 17071]
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, pp. 112, 116 [AotW citation 33415]