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Federal (USV)

Corporal

William Bailey Howe

(1840 - 1886)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

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

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital (GH) #2 in Frederick, MD on 28 September, sent to GH#5 on 9 October, and to GH#1 on 29 December. He was discharged there for disability on 10 April 1863 and began receiving a veterans' pension in August 1863.

After the War

By 1870 he was a hotel keeper in Polk County, IA but by 1880 was in Des Moines, no occupation listed.

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 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy J Barnes (1844-1926) in June 1865 and they had 5 children.

Birth

08/04/1840; Louisville, KY

Death

03/25/1888; Des Moines, IA; burial in Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, IA

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. 282 [AotW citation 33342]

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 #486 and #808 [AotW citation 33343]

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. 255 [AotW citation 33344]

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