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(1841 - 1917)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old blacksmith living with blacksmith John H Thomas and family in Richmond, Wayne County, IN. He enlisted there and mustered on 29 July 1861 as a Private in Company B, 19th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and his leg was amputated.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital (GH) #6 in Fredrick, MD on 28 September, sent to GH #1 on 9 February 1863, and discharged for disability there on 13 March 1863.
After the War
By 1870 he was a blacksmith at Williamsport, Warren County, IN and was County Recorder there in 1880. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a blacksmith at Alvan in Vermillion County, IL. He was admitted to the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Danville, IL on 21 January 1917 and died there of pneumonia on 8 February 1917.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as James D. Livingood. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 in the 9th Indiana, and Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, and the Registers.4 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Janice Jane Clark in June 1864. He married again, Sarah A (?; 1845-aft. 1910) before 1870.
Birth
02/1841; Warren County, IN
Death
02/08/1917; Danville, IL; burial in Danville National Cemetery, Danville, IL
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. 393 [AotW citation 33318]
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 #86 [AotW citation 33319]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 291 [AotW citation 33320]
4 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938, registration #14188 [AotW citation 33321]