Theodore M. Nance

A 17 year old farmer in Edinburg, he mustered as Private, Company I, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861.

He was wounded in the throat in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862. First Sergeant Holloway later wrote:

I picked a piece of collar button out of his [Nance's] neck & told him if it had come one-half inch closer he would have been a dead man. It cut the skin & bruised his throat, mashed the collar button. He was standing sideways loading his musket when the ball struck him.

He was again wounded, slightly, in the knee at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He reenlisted on 24 January 1864 and transferred to Company H, 70th Indiana Infantry on 4 November 1864 in Atlanta. He was consolidated into Company C, 33rd Indiana Infantry in Washington, DC on 6 June 1865 and mustered out with them on 21 July.

By 1865 he was in the saloon business in Tipton, IN. He was later also in the undertaking and furniture businesses, as Young & Nance. By 1883 he owned two homes, two farms, and the business building in town.

Service from Brown, 1 who has him as Thaddeus M. Nance, and the Historical Data Systems database. The quote above from Nance's Pension Record, published by Jones.2 Personal details from Blanchard's Counties of Howard and Tipton, Indiana; Historical and Biographical (1883). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

1844; Franklin, IN

01/09/1921; Tipton, IN; burial in Fairview Cemetery, Tipton, IN