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(1842 - 1910)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 17th Michigan Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer on his parents' place in Lawrence, Van Buren County MI. He enlisted on 29 May 1862 and and mustered as Corporal, Company I, 17th Michigan Infantry on 16 August.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot or piece of shell to his left forearm in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 19 September and sent on to Philadelphia on 26 September 1862. He was admitted to the US General Hospital in Chester, PA on 2 October and was discharged there for disability on 14 April 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was a store clerk living with his new wife and parents in Decatur, MI but soon after moved to Chicago, IL and was a railroad clerk there. By 1891 he was a resident of the Michigan Soldier's Home in Grand Rapids, and he died there in 1910, age 68.
References & notes
His service basics from the Record,1 which has his wounding at Antietam on the 17th. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1870, & 1900-1910, and research by descendant Paul D Hodges. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Elizabeth Sarah Duffin (1847-1890) in 1870, and they had son Herbert.
His brother Herrick, also in Company I, was wounded at Antietam on 17 September.
Birth
02/01/1842; Spring Arbor, MI
Death
12/16/1910; Grand Rapids, MI; burial in Michigan Veteran Homes at Grand Rapids Cemetery, Grand Rapids, 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. 17, p. 49 [AotW citation 31521]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.276 [AotW citation 31522]