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(c. 1834 - 1863)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 26 year old farmer at Comstock in Kalamazoo County, MI. He enlisted at Galesburg 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 was killed on 2 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of Michigan 1 with 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 memorial is on Findagrave.
He married Martha Lamkin (1835-1920) in September 1858 and they had 2 children.
Birth
c. 1834 in NY
Death
07/02/1863; Gettysburg, PA
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. 104 [AotW citation 31461]