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(1837 - 1908)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 23 year old farmer living with his parents and 3 siblings on their place at Saline in Washtenwaw County, MI. He enlisted at Mendon in St Joseph County on 9 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, Seventh Michigan Infantry on 22 August.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 18 December 1863. He was listed as missing (probably wounded) at Hatcher's Run, VA on 27 October 1865 and returned to his company on 30 April 1865, then at Burksville, VA. He mustered out on 5 July 1865 at Jeffersonville, IN.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1890 he was a farmer in St Joseph County, MI.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of Michigan.1 His wounding on the Campaign from a November 1862 letter home by Lieutenant Samuel C Hodgman. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and the 1890 US Veterans' Census, in which he reported he was wounded at Gettysburg and Hatcher's Run. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Katherine "Kate" Kronewitt (1837-1920) and they had 5 children between 1866 and 1876.
Birth
06/13/1837 in NY
Death
05/13/1908; Mendon, MI; burial in Mendon Township Cemetery, Mendon, MI
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. 25 [AotW citation 31457]