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(1841 - 1915)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
Son of a French father and German mother, in 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents and 8 younger siblings on their farm at Washington Township in Jackson County, IN. He enlisted on 29 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 19th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #3 in Frederick, MD on 1 October and transferred to Camp A in Frederick on 9 January 1863. He was returned to duty about 17 January.
After the War
In 1880 he was a school teacher back in Jackson County, IN but by 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer there.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Ulyses Damatelle. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Martha Adaline McGreary (1849-1941) in September 1877 and they had a son Harry (1878-1969).
Birth
06/11/1841; Cincinnati, OH
Death
11/20/1915; Chestnut Ridge, IN; burial in Chestnut Ridge Cemetery, Washington Township, IN
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. 403 [AotW citation 33293]
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 #83 and #767 [AotW citation 33294]