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(c. 1840 - 1862)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer living with his parents and 7 siblings on their farm at Alfordsville in Daviess County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the leg and possibly captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died shortly after.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 His wound and death details from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His modern memorial is in Old Union Cemetery, Alfordsville, IN (via Findagrave).
Birth
c. 1840; Daviess County, IN
Death
09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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. 277 [AotW citation 33372]
2 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. 168 [AotW citation 33487]