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C. Hogue

C. Hogue

Federal (USV)

Private

Clinton Hogue

(1839 - 1922)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of a carpenter, in 1860 he was a 21 year old living with his parents and 3 younger siblings in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. He enlisted on 13 January 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 19th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant and First Sergeant, dates not given. He reenlisted in January 1864 and transferred to the 20th Indiana Infantry in the consolidation of 18 October 1864. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Company D on 4 February 1865, but was not mustered at that rank, and mustered out with his company as First Sergeant on 12 July 1865 at Indianapolis.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer near Barnes in Washington County, KS. He'd retired there by 1910 and was living with his son Edmond and his family in Barnes by 1920.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph contributed to the FamilySearch database by William Dunn in 2014.

He married Lucy Catharine Strong (1845-1916) in February 1866 and they had 12 children.

Birth

02/24/1839; Cuyahoga Falls, OH

Death

06/12/1922; Barnes, KS; burial in Maplewood Cemetery, Barnes, KS

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. 2, pp. 188, 193; Vol. 4, p. 402  [AotW citation 33300]