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Federal (USV)

Private

William H. Snedeker

(c. 1834 - ?)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 24 (26?) year old mason in Terra Haute, Vigo County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company F, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh, the bone broken in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital (GH) #4 in Frederick, MD on 22 September and transferred to GH #1 on 15 January 1863. He was discharged there for disability on 10 March 1863.

After the War

In 1870 he was a brick mason living with master mason Ralph Conover and family in Terra Haute, but by 1880 he was a bricklayer on his own there. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Oliver Morton Post No. 1 in Terre Haute.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 also as W.H. Snedicor. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1870, and his (undated) GAR application, online from the Vigo Public Library.

Birth

c. 1834; Middlesex County, NJ

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. 283 [AotW citation 33358]

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 #343 [AotW citation 33359]

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