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(1822 - 1890)
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 right foot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, and his foot was amputated.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital (GH) #4 in Frederick, MD on 22 September, sent to GH#1 on 15 January 1863, and was discharged there for disability on 4 March 1863. He began receiving a disability pension that month.
After the War
By 1880 he was a laborer in Russelville, Lawrence County, IL.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880; his original family name probably Troquet (or Troquier or Trottier). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Robinson in December 1846. He married again, Angelique DesJean (1827-) in May 1849 and they had 2 children.
Birth
09/02/1822 in IL
Death
1890; Lawrence County, IL; burial in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Vincennes, 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. 284 [AotW citation 33367]
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 #315 [AotW citation 33368]