Theodore W. Stull

In 1860 he was a 27 year old medical student in Marengo, IL, and he graduated from medical school in Chicago in 1861. On 14 September 1861 he enlisted as Corporal, Company G and on 18 September mustered as Hospital Steward of the 8th Illinois Cavalry.

He was probably acting Assistant Surgeon on the Campaign. He accompanied his regiment and tended wounded soldiers in the field at several locations along the route from Washington to Sharpsburg. After Antietam he and Surgeon Hard worked in a hospital in Keedysville, MD.

He was commissioned 2nd Assistant Surgeon on 6 February 1863 and First Assistant on 6 June 1863. He mustered out with the regiment on 17 July 1865.

He was the "first medical practitioner" in Marengo, IL, and was a physician there until his death at age 46.

His service from the Adjutant General1 and Surgeon Hard's History;2 Hard refers to him as Assistant Surgeon and Dr. Stull at Antietam. Personal details from the Annual Announcement and Catalogue of the Rush Medical College (1884), Munsell's History of McHenry County, Illinois (1922), family genealogists, and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Aurora M. Adams (1845-1940) in April 1868 and they had 4 children.

03/08/1833; McKean County, PA

05/08/1879; McHenry County, IL; burial in Marengo City Cemetery, Marengo, IL