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(1843 - 1906)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
A carpenter's son, in 1860 he was a 16 year old apprentice carpenter living with his parents and 4 siblings at Loogootee in Martin County, IN. He enlisted there and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the right arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for wounds on 26 January 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was the depot agent on the Indianapolis and Vincennes RR at Lyons in Greene County, IN and was appointed the town's first postmaster that year. In 1880 he was a carpenter in Knox County, IN but by 1885 was a carpenter in Harper County, KS. By 1900 he was a justice of the peace at Enid in the Oklahoma Territory.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, and the Kansas State Census of 1885. His gravesite is on Findagrave; the US War Department supplied his headstone in January 1940.
He married Cordelia Smith (1848-1937) in 1867 and they had a son Horace (1868-1940).
Birth
12/1843; Delphi, OH
Death
03/19/1906; Colorado Springs, CO; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, CO
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. 277 [AotW citation 33332]
2 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. 233 [AotW citation 33333]