(1842 - 1905)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
A Railroad man in Crawfordsville, IN, he mustered as Private, Company F, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861. We was wounded in the side by a piece of shell at Winchester, VA on 25 May 1862, and was treated at a hospital in Williamsport, MD.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left side of his head and face in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Showman Farm and Smoketown Hospitals near Sharpsburg to at least 15 January 1863.
References & notes
Birth
1842; Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Death
04/16/1905; burial in Eudora City Cemetery, Eudora, KS
1 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 602 [AotW citation 18607]
2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 440 [AotW citation 18608]