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Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry on 30 August 1862, initially an unassigned recruit.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot that fractured his spine.
The ball entered at the lower and outer surface of the crest of the ilium [pelvis bone] and imbedded itself deeply in the side of the last lumbar vertebra.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and sent on to Philadelphia, PA on 30 September. He was admitted to the Summit House Hospital there on 6 October and had surgery to remove the bullet the same day. He recovered sufficiently to return to duty on 12 December 1862. He was discharged as a Corporal, date not given.
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. IV, p. 290 [AotW citation 31440]
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 #4.776 [AotW citation 31441]
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 1, p. 462 [AotW citation 31442]