(1845 - 1929)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
A 16 year old farmer in Gosport County, IN, he mustered as Private, Company F, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Corporal on 30 March 1863. He was injured while moving logs for fortifications near Atlanta, GA on 20 August 1864 and mustered out with his Company on 1 September 1864 at Indianapolis, IN.
References & notes
Birth
01/21/1845
Death
01/22/1929; burial in Dugger Cemetery, Dugger, IN
1 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 601 [AotW citation 18580]