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(1819 - 1881)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
Son of a methodist minister, in 1850 he was a carpenter in Wapello County, IA. He went west to California by 1853, but returned to Indiana after the death of his wife there that year. He enlisted and mustered on 29 July 1861 as a Sergeant in Company I, 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 16 October 1862, promoted to First Lieutenant on 15 March 1863, and to Captain on 31 October. He resigned his commission on 9 August 1864.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a carpenter at Spencer, IN.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850, 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Warner (1814-1853) in July 1843 and they had 5 children. He married again, Mahala Howe (1840-1871) in August 1856 and they had 3 more.
Birth
11/30/1819; Salem, IN
Death
08/10/1881; Spencer, IN; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Spencer, 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. 174; Vol. 4, p. 404 [AotW citation 33308]