Henry Harter

From Evansville, IN, he enlisted there and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company E, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps in January 1863 and mustered out in Washington, DC at the end of his term of enlistment on 7 June 1864. He enlisted again, on 13 October 1864 in Lafayette, IN as a Private in Company G, 30th Indiana Infantry and mustered out with them at Victoria, TX on 13 October 1865.

In 1870 he was a shoemaker in Evansville, IN and in 1880 was making shoes in Marion County, IN. He was a shoemaker at New Bethel, IN when he was admitted to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Marion, IN on 31 August 1893. He lived there and in the Home branches at Danville, IL and Dayton, OH to at least December 1920.

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists, also as Haerter, the US Census of 1870-1920, and the Registers.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married German-born Katharina Moog (1845-1915) in August 1866 and they had 7 children.

05/26/1838; Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, GERMANY

04/04/1932; Evansville, IN; burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, IN