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(c. 1834 - 1897)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 27 year old miller in Daviess County, IN. He enlisted and mustered a a Private on 30 August 1862, and was assigned to Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right shoulder 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 to Philadelphia on 25 September 1862. He was discharged there for disability on 2 (or 7) February 1863.
After the War
By 1870 he was a farmer at Alfordville in Daviess County, IN and was granted a veterans' pension for disabilty in July 1871. By 1880 he was farming at Loogootee in Martin County, IN. He was admitted to the Central Branch of the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Dayton, OH in November 1882 and discharged in January 1884. He was re-admitted, to the Western Branch of the Home at Leavenworth, KS, on 24 October 1889 and discharged in March 1891, and was again briefly a resident of the Home, in the Marion, IN Branch, in February 1894.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and the Registers.4 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Minerva Alford (1837-1904) in January 1855 and they had 3 children.
Birth
c. 1834; Daviess County, IN
Death
10/27/1897; Evansville, IN; burial in Goodwill Cemetery, Loogootee, 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. 290 [AotW citation 33386]
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 #40 [AotW citation 33387]
3 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. 190 [AotW citation 33388]
4 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938, registration #2762, #3956, #11281 [AotW citation 33389]