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(1840 - 1897)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
From Knox County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company G, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his hand 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 22 September and was sent on to Washington, DC on 25 September. He was discharged due to wounds on 1 December 1862. He enlisted again, in Hopkinsville, KY on 14 March 1863 and mustered as a Private in Company M of the 3rd Kentucky Cavalry on 22 June. He was Sergeant Major of the regiment at muster-out on 3 August 1865 in Louisville, KY.
After the War
He began receiving a veterans' pension for disability in April 1874 and in 1880 he was a merchant in Pike County, MO. By 1890 was at Wellsville in Montgomery County, MO.
References & notes
Birth
12/27/1840; Knox County, IN
Death
08/14/1897; Mexico, MO; burial in Elmwood Cemetery, Mexico, MO
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. 284 [AotW citation 33351]
2 State of Kentucky, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, 2 volumes, Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, Public Printer, 1866, Vol. I, p. 80 [AotW citation 33353]
3 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 #318 [AotW citation 33352]