(c. 1839 - 1922)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
A 22 year old farmer in Bedford, he mustered as Private, Company D, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the neck in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a hospital in Philadelphia, PA and discharged for wounds on 16 February 1863 at the Convalescent Camp, Alexandria, VA.
After the War
He was a resident of the National Soldiers' Home in Los Angeles at the time of his death in 1922.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1839
Death
04/23/1922; Los Angeles, CA; burial in Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
1 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 587 [AotW citation 18510]