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(1828 - 1904)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 32 year old merchant in Newberry, Greene County, IN. He enlisted in Putnam County, IN and mustered on 8 March 1862 as a Private in Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by gunshots to his thigh and arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and sent on to Baltimore on 8 October. He was discharged for disability from wounds in January 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was a store clerk in Springville in Lawrence County, IN but by 1880 and to at least 1900 was a gardener there.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as Edward B. Gainey. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson,3 also as Wesley (his brother, not present in Maryland). Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900.
He married Sarah Dagley (1828-1901) in September 1848 and they had 11 children.
Birth
03/19/1828; Springville, IN
Death
01/02/1904; Springville, 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. 4, p. 280 [AotW citation 33328]
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 #4.780 [AotW citation 33329]
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. 217 [AotW citation 33330]