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(1841 - 1887)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker on the Jonas Scramlin place at Climax in Kalamazoo County, MI. He enlisted at Galesburg on 7 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 listed as a deserter on 30 June 1863 at Uniontown, MD.
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 the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
1841 in OH
Death
10/01/1887; burial in Woodland Cemetery, Monroe, 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. 115 [AotW citation 31464]