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(c. 1843 - 1864)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
An 18 year old teamster in Jackson County, he mustered as Private, Company H, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was hospitalized at Satterlee Army Hospital, Philadelphia, PA and returned to duty in December 1862. He was courtmartialed in January 1863 for being drunk on guard duty and fined. He reenlisted on 24 January 1864. He was wounded again, in the head by "grape shot", on 27 May 1864 at New Hope Church, VA and died of wounds in Chattanooga, TN on 10 June 1864.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1843
Death
06/11/1864; Chattanooga, TN; burial in Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga, TN
1 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 610 [AotW citation 18715]