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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Levi Newton Dunlap

(1838 - 1922)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 21 year old blacksmith at Loogootee in Martin County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Corporal in Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his foot 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 the next day. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 1 June 1863 and resigned on 28 March 1864.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farmer in Daviess County, IN, but by 1880 was a sawyer and carpenter there. In 1900 he was a mechanic in Odon, IN and by 1910 had retired there, and lived next door to his Redman in-laws.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Ann Slimp (1842-1863) in October 1860. He married again, the twice-widowed Margaret E Killion Deck (1829-1904) in August 1865. He married, thirdly, Agnes Redman (1851-1944) in 1905.

Birth

11/05/1838 in OH

Death

03/30/1922; in IN; burial in Walnut Hill Cemetery, Odon, IN

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. 2, p. 115; Vol. 4, p. 277  [AotW citation 33390]