Silas Newton Whitted

He was raised on his family's farm, farmed on his own after age 18, then established a saw and grist mill with his brother George at 26 (1859). At age 28 he mustered as Sergeant, Company D, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861. He injured his back ferrying soldiers over the Potomac near Williamsport, MD in June 1862, and was hurt in a fall on Cedar Mountain, VA on 9 August.

He was wounded by gunshot to the left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at the City Hotel Hospital in Frederick, MD from 28 September to 1 October, then possibly transferred to Philadelphia, PA. He was in the Camden Street US Army General Hospital, Baltimore, and was discharged there for wounds on 20 December 1862.

He returned to Lawrence County and farmed at Shawswick for more than 35 years. He married twice and had 10 children with his first wife Elizabeth Edwards. He retired to Bedford, IN in 1901. He was a member of the GAR Post in Bedford.

His service from Brown,1 who has him as Silas N. Whitler, and the Historical Data Systems database. Hospital details from the Patient List2 and Steven Russell's Roster. Further information from Bowen's History of Lawrence and Monroe Counties, Indiana (1914). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

12/29/1833; Shawswick Township, Lawrence County, IN

01/17/1917; Bedford, IN; burial in Crawford Cemetery, Shawswick, IN