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(1842 - 1907)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents and 9 siblings on their farm at Bruceville in Knox County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Corporal in Company G, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #2 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and was discharged there for disability on 16 January 1863. He enlisted again, on 20 February 1864 in Louisville, KY and mustered on 15 April as a Private in Company M, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry. He was promoted to Sergeant and mustered out on 15 July 1865 in Louisville.
After the War
In 1900 he was a farm worker living with his daughter Elizabeth, mother Eliza, and brother William on brother Edwin's farm in Bruceville.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant Generals of Indiana1 and Kentucky.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 3 and Nelson.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah Ellen Hollingsworth (1843-1878) in March 1872 and they had 2 daughters. Purl (b. 1873) died at 5 years old. Elizabeth married George Addison Sherwood, Jr, son of another member of Company G of the 14th Indiana.
Birth
04/12/1842; Knox County, IN
Death
12/20/1907; Bruceville, IN; burial in Upper Indiana Cemetery, Bruceville, IN
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 33363]
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 33366]
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 #221 [AotW citation 33364]
4 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. 412 [AotW citation 33365]