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J. Coons
(c. 1828 - 1864)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 32 year old attorney living with fellow lawyer William Harrow and family in Vincennes, Knox County, IN. He enrolled there on 24 April 1861 and mustered on 7 June as Captain of Company G, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted Lieutenant Colonel on 11 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder and chest 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 24 September 1862 and transferred, probably to Washington, DC on 2 October. He was promoted to Colonel on 22 January 1863 and was killed at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture is from a photograph in the collection of the Union League in Philadelphia, PA.
Birth
c. 1828; Knox County, IN
Death
05/12/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA; burial in Greenlawn 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. 2, pp. 112, 117, 122 [AotW citation 33382]
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 #3 and #27 [AotW citation 33385]