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(1843 - 1903)
Home State: New Jersey
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 18th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
A mason's son, in 1860 he was a 16 year old mason living with his parents and 8 siblings in Newton, Sussex County, NJ. He enlisted in Middletown, Orange County, NY on 30 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 18th New York Infantry on 17 May.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the right leg in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 18 September and his leg was amputated on 12 December 1862. He was discharged in Frederick for disability on 14 (or 27) January 1863. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in February 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was again living with his parents and siblings in Newton, NJ, with "no occupation." By 1880 he was a machinist in Newark, NJ. In 1900, he was living on his pension, alone, in a boarding house in Newark.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of New York1 and his Muster Roll Abstract, online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR,3 as H.G. Knox. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Emma L Vanderhoof (1847-1888) before 1870 and they had a daughter Emma (1877-).
Birth
10/1843; Newton, NJ
Death
06/03/1903; Newark, NJ; burial in Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, NJ
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 1899, Ser. No. 19, p. 1019 [AotW citation 31294]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.033 [AotW citation 31295]
3 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 3, p.308 [AotW citation 31296]