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(c. 1842 - 1914)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old living in Bloomington in Monroe County, IN with his widowed mother Esther and 7 siblings. He enlisted there and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company K, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot which broke his 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 discharged there on 24 April 1863. He began receiving a veterans' pension for disability in July 1863.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, as William Hughs. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He was married and had one child; both wife and child preceded him in death by "several years."
His brothers Dowan/Darwin and James were also in Company K.
Birth
c. 1842; Bloomington, IN
Death
03/22/1914; Bloomington, IN; burial in Rose Hill Cemetery, Bloomington, 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. 289 [AotW citation 33337]
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 #4.778 [AotW citation 33338]