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Federal (USV)

Private

Meshack Hannahs

(1830 - 1911)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

One of a set of triplets, he was orphaned at about age 12 in 1842. In 1860 he was a 29 year old saloon keeper (with George Crain) at Portsmouth in Scioto County, OH. He enlisted in Vermillion County, IN and mustered on 31 August 1862 as a Private in Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for wounds on 10 April 1863.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a day laborer near Toronto in Vermillion County, IN. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was retired and living in Dana, IN.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as Meshach Hannahs. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Melvina Floyd (1857-1917) in July 1868 (she was 10?).

Birth

05/20/1830 in KY

Death

11/30/1911; Helt, IN; burial in Memorial Chapel Cemetery, Newport, IN

Notes

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. 288 [AotW citation 33334]

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