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(1839 - 1897)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted on 13 January 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 19th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right arm in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862. His arm was amputated the same day, with further surgery on 18 September.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 1 November and was discharged there for disability on 11 December 1862. He began receiving a pension for disability in February 1863.
After the War
In 1880 he was a "government pensioner" in Randolph County, IN.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Jane McKew (1842-1872) in June 1864 and they had 6 children. He married again, Martha Barr (1850-1942) in March 1874 and they had 2 more. He married, thirdly, Eliza Ann May (1852-1915) in about 1878 and they had 2 children.
Birth
06/03/1839; Randolph County, IN
Death
01/24/1897; Randolph County, IN; burial in Reitenour Cemetery, Ward Township, Randolph County, 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. 409 [AotW citation 33297]
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 #369 [AotW citation 33298]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 763 [AotW citation 33299]