William Randolph Cox

A 21 year old mason and plasterer from Vermillion County, IN, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry on 7 June 1861.

He was wounded in the wrist in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at the 3rd Division/2nd Corps field hospital on the R.F. Kennedy Farm near Sharpsburg. He enlisted 25 October 1862 at Sandy Hook, MD as a Private in Company C, US Engineer Battalion (Regular Army). He reenlisted at Brandy Station, VA on 5 February 1864; his discharge date not given.

By 1880 he was farming with his father-in-law Jacob Feathers in Hopewell Township, York County, PA. In 1900 he was a house plasterer in Shrewsbury Township, York County.

His Indiana service from the Adjutant General,1 with US service from the Registers.2 Thanks to g-g-grandson Matt Wynn for the pointer to Cox and for his Antietam wound and hospital details, from a card among his Compiled Service Records. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sophia Feathers (1846-1904) in 1866 and they had 3 children.

01/05/1840; Greenup, IL

10/02/1901; York County, PA; burial in Winterstown Evangelical Cemetery, Winterstown, PA