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(1836 - 1915)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 126th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 25 year old farm worker at Gorham in Ontario County, NY. He enlisted on 7 August 1862 at Seneca, NY for three years and mustered as a Private in Company F, 126th New York Infantry on 22 August.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his skull at Harpers Ferry, VA on 13 September 1862 and was surrendered there on 15 September.
The rest of the War
He was paroled at the hospital at Harpers Ferry on 16 September and was admitted to the hospital at the Parole Camp, Annapolis, MD on 29 December, suffering from vertigo and partial paralysis of his left leg. He was discharged there for disability on 7 January 1863.
After the War
From 1872 to at least 1893 he was a cooper (barrel manufacturer) at Hopewell, Ontario County, by then having "built up a large business." By 1910 he had retired there.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,2 as Wallace Keser. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1910, the New York State Census of 1875, and a bio sketch in L.C. Aldrich's History of Ontario County (1893). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Evered (1836-1903) in 1867.
Birth
12/23/1836; Gorham, NY
Death
1915; burial in Gorham Cemetery, Gorham, NY
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1903, Ser. No. 36, p. 941 [AotW citation 31199]
2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 114 [AotW citation 31200]