Milton C. Jacobs

Son of tombstone maker Valentine Jacobs, in 1860 he was a 14 year old living with his parents and 7 siblings in Indianapolis, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 29 July 1861 as a Private in Company D, 19th Indiana Infantry.

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was probably discharged for disability, date not found, but enlisted again, on 12 August 1863 as a Private in Company L, 1st Indiana Regiment Heavy Artillery (formerly the 21st Indiana Infantry). He was listed as a deserter from his company on 26 February 1865.

In 1870 he was a painter living with his parents and 2 siblings in Indianapolis, his father then a saloon keeper. He was still a painter in Indianapolis in 1880 and a plumber there by 1893. He began receiving a veterans' pension for disability in February 1888. He was boarding with the Brown family in Indianapolis in 1900, occupation not listed.

Service basics from the Adjutant General1 and his Pension Card, online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910, and an 1893 Indianapolis Directory. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1846; Clark County, OH

12/14/1919; Indianapolis, IN; burial in Floral Park Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN