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Federal (USV)

Private

James C. Jackman

(c. 1839 - 1869)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of a farmer, from Parke County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company A, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and sent on to Washington, DC on 28 September. He was discharged there for disability on 30 December 1862.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as J.L. Jackman. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his mother was a Nevins.

He married Susannah Brookbank (1845-1902) in February 1863 and they had 4 chidren.

His brother John M Jackman (1836-1873) was also in Company A.

Birth

c. 1839; Parke County, IN

Death

12/24/1869; Parke County, IN; burial in Nevins Cemetery, Bridgeton, 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. 274 [AotW citation 33345]

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 #337 [AotW citation 33346]

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