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(1840 - 1905)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
An 18 (21?) year old farmer in Washington, IN, he mustered as Private, Company E, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a piece of shell in the left chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 24 January 1864 and transferred to Company K, 70th Indiana Infantry on 4 November 1864 at Atlanta after the muster-out of the 27th. He was consolidated into Company B, 33rd Indiana Infantry on 8 June 1865 in Washington, DC, and mustered out with them on 21 July 1865 in Louisville, KY.
References & notes
His service from Brown1 and the Historical Data Systems database. Birth information from family genealogists. He married Henriette Potts in 1869 and they had 9 children by 1890.
Birth
03/28/1840; Daviess County, IN
Death
04/10/1905; Washington, IN; burial in Maysville Cemetery, Washington, IN
1 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 593 [AotW citation 18535]