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(1829 - 1896)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 31 year old day laborer at Wakeshma in Kalamazoo County, MI. He enlisted at Wakeshma on 14 August 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company I, Seventh Infantry on 22 August. He was promoted to Sergeant on 18 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He transferred to Company E of the 18th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps on 4 December 1863 and mustered out with them on 29 December 1864 in Washington, DC.
After the War
By 1870 he was a farmer in Cloud County, KS and in 1880 he was farming in Republic County, KS.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of Michigan.1 His wound at Antietam from a November 1862 letter home by Lieutenant Samual C Hodgman. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Evaulette Foote (1832-1911) in Wakeshema in February 1854 and they had 3 sons and a daughter.
His brother in law Elias Foote was also in Company I.
Birth
03/08/1829; Sandy Creek, NY
Death
03/20/1896; Junction City, KS; burial in Highland Cemetery, Junction City, KS
1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 7, p. 83 [AotW citation 31454]