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(c. 1837 - 1862)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 23 year old farmer on his father's place at Athens in Calhoun County, MI. He enlisted there on 12 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 died at the Convalescent Camp at Alexandria, VA on 10 December 1862.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of Michigan.1 His wounding at Antietam from a November 1862 letter home by Lieutenant Samuel C Hodgman. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
His brothers David J and George Washington Outman were also in Company I and survived the war.
Birth
c. 1837; Hinkley, OH
Death
12/10/1862; Alexandria, VA; burial in Alexandria National Cemetery, Alexandria, VA
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. 79 [AotW citation 31459]