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Federal (USV)

Private

James W. Wilson

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 arm 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, sent to the GH at Camp B on 15 January 1863, and was sent on to Baltimore on 7 March. He was discharged for disability on 20 April 1863 and began receiving a pension in May.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2

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. 284 [AotW citation 33369]

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 #319 and #1.348 [AotW citation 33370]

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