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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel D. Chipman

(1840 - 1893)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer living with his parents and 8 siblings on their place at Bloomfield in Greene County, IN. He mustered as a Private in Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry on 31 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the mouth in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 15 December 1863 and transferred to Company B of the 20th Indiana Infantry on 6 June 1864. He was discharged on 12 January 1865 and was granted a US pension for disability in February 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farm worker back at Bloomfield, IN and he was a laborer there in 1880.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1. His service from the Adjutant General.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married the widow Elizabeth Tibbett Sarver (1839-1913) in August 1865 and they had a son William (1863-1935).

Birth

03/03/1840; Greene County, IN

Death

03/02/1893; burial in Grandview Cemetery, Bloomfield, IN

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. 161 [AotW citation 17472]

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,. pp. 280, 434 [AotW citation 33617]

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