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(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
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]