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Federal (USV)

Private

Clay Esshom

(1842 - 1902)

Home State: Iowa

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

Raised in Monroe County, IA, he returned to Indiana in 1860. From Parke County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company A, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot through his side and lung 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 27 September and sent on to Philadelphia on 1 October 1862. He was discharged for disability on 1 March 1863.

After the War

He began receiving a veterans' pension for disability in May 1866. By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Monroe County, IA.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as Clay Eshom. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Clay Ashom. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1880 & 1900, and his obituary in the Albia (IA) Republican of 20 February 1902. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Joanna Victorine Rilea (1848-1930) in February 1864 and they had 7 children.

Birth

10/29/1844; Putnam County, IN

Death

02/15/1902; Lovilia, IA; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Lovilia, IA

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. 274 [AotW citation 33374]

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 #4.741 [AotW citation 33375]

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