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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Gabriel L. Cherryholmes

(1833 - 1902)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Owen County, IN, he enlisted on 29 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 19th Indiana Infantry. He was appointed Sergeant, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left hip and groin in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and transferred, probably to Philadelphia, on 30 September 1862.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Owen County, IN. He began receiving a veterans' pension for disability in December 1875.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Stantz (1838-1871) in August 1856 and they had 9 children. He married again, Nancy Jane Byram (1835-1891) in August 1872 and they had 5 more. He married, thirdly, Sarah Ellen Fiscus (later Wells, 1857-1938) in November 1892.

Birth

02/02/1833; Auburn, OH

Death

09/07/1902; Coal City, IN; burial in Fiscus Cemetery, Coal City, IN

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 404 [AotW citation 33291]

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 #543 [AotW citation 33292]

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