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(1841 - 1915)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents and 10 siblings in Henry County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 29 July 1861 as a Corporal in Company K, 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 appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 2 July 1863 (commission dated 14 April 1864). He was wounded again, in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and resigned his commission on 14 September 1864.
After the War
By 1870 he was a merchant at Burlington in Delaware County, IN and in 1880 was a merchant in Muncie, IN and also County Auditor there. In 1900 he was a farmer in Liberty Township, Delaware County, and he'd retired there by 1910.
References & notes
Birth
01/11/1841; Henry County, IN
Death
03/15/1915; Dunkirk, IN; burial in Beech Grove Cemetery, Muncie, 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. 2, p. 175; Vol. 4, p. 406 [AotW citation 33307]