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Federal (USV)

Private

Isaac Hutton

(1828 - 1907)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 32 year old farmer at Carlisle in Sullivan County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot through both ankles 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 24 September and released from the hospital on 10 November. He was discharged for disability on 31 December and began receiving a veterans' pension in January 1863.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farm worker at Kecksville (later named Burns City) in Martin County, IN but by 1880 had his own farm there.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mahala Payton (1831-1884) in about 1848 and they had 9 children by 1861. He married again, Margaret Huff (1843-1917) in January 1867 and they had 4 more.

Birth

07/21/1828; Lawrence County, IN

Death

11/16/1907; Martin County, IN; burial in Wards Chapel Cemetery, Burns City, 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. 277 [AotW citation 33339]

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 #4.462 [AotW citation 33340]

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. 259 [AotW citation 33341]

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