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(1840 - 1921)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 21, from Kalamazoo, 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 was discharged for disability at Newark, NJ on 8 December 1862.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Adams in Adams County, WI. He'd finally retired by 1920, then 79 years old.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of Michigan.1 His presence and likely wounding on the Campaign from a November 1862 letter home by Lieutenant Samuel C Hodgman. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Vienna Elnora Carothers (1845-1932) in May 1865 and they had 4 children.
His brother Daniel, also in Company I, was mortally wounded at Antietam.
Birth
02/16/1840; Lorain County, OH
Death
08/25/1921; Friendship, WI; burial in Mount Repose Cemetery, Friendship, WI
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. 65 [AotW citation 31458]