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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Summerfield

(c. 1833 - 1904)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Vanderburgh County, IN, he enlisted at Evansville, IN on 15 April and mustered as a Private in Company E, 14th Indiana Infantry. He reenlisted and mustered for 3 years's service on 6 June in Terra Haute.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his chest 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 28 September and released on 28 October. He was discharged for disability on 1 December 1862 in Baltimore.

After the War

In 1870 he was a painter living in John Duffin's boarding house in Lafayette, Wabash County, IN and by 1880 was a painter in Lebanon, PA. He was admitted to the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, in Dayton, OH on 23 July 1881. He was "summarily" discharged in July 1884, readmitted in September 1886, and transferred to the Marion, IN branch in April 1890. He was discharged again, for "general misconduct" in April 1891, but re-admitted at Marion in September 1895. He died there of chronic diarrhea and senility on 15 October 1904.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as H. Sommerfield. Personal details from the US Census of 1870 and the Registers.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1833; Hesse-Kassel, GERMANY

Death

10/15/1904; Marion, IN; burial in Marion National Cemetery, Marion, 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. 281 [AotW citation 33360]

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 #4.779 [AotW citation 33361]

3 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938, registration #633 [AotW citation 33362]

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