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(c. 1837 - 1922)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
A 24 year old farmer from Bartholomew County, he mustered as Private, Company C, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by gunshot to the left hand action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again, by gunshot through the right foot, in action at Gettysburg, PA. He was treated at hospitals on the battlefield, in Philadelphia, PA, and in Washington, DC. He was discharged there for wounds on 26 April 1864.
After the War
He died in 1922 at the National Hospital for Disabled Veterans, Hampton, VA.
References & notes
His service from Brown1 and the Historical Data Systems database. Hospital and other details from Steven Russell's Roster. His gravesite in Indiana is on Findagrave as is a stone for him at the Hampton, VA, National Cemetery.
Birth
c. 1837
Death
05/10/1922; Hampton, VA; burial in Carter Chapel Cemetery, Columbus, IN
1 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 582 [AotW citation 18451]