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(1843 - 1930)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
An 18 year old farmer from Washington County, he enlisted as Private, Company A, 27th Indiana Infantry 12 September 1861. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left knee and right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was initially treated at the Showman Farm hospital at Sharpsburg. From 4 October 1862 he was treated at the City Hotel Hospital in Frederick, MD, and then transferred to the US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick on 9 October. He was discharged for wounds there on 23 October 1862.
After the War
His obituary noted him as a pioneer in Washita County, OK, and the first Postmaster of the city of New Cordell, OK. He died in the hospital at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Leavenworth, KS at age 87.
References & notes
Birth
06/28/1843 in IN
Death
05/05/1930; Leavenworth, KS; burial in Lawnview Cemetery, Cordell, OK
1 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 568 [AotW citation 18376]
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 #667, 798 [AotW citation 18377]
3 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. 213 [AotW citation 18378]