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(c. 1826 - 1862)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 34 year old master carpenter in Newport, Vermillion County, IN. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry on 7 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was killed by a gunshot to his head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His widow began receiving a pension in December 1862.
References & notes
Service information from the Adjutant General,1 as Jerome B. Dickens. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Amanda M Bohannon (1824-) in September 1854 and they had 2 children. He married again, Elizabeth Duzan (1831-) in October 1851 and they had 3 more.
Birth
c. 1826 in IN
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Newport Cemetery, Newport, IN
1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, pg. 287 [AotW citation 20573]