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(c. 1837 - ?)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 23 year old in Vermillion County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 22 September 1862 and transferred to Washington, DC on 28 September 1862. He mustered out on 6 June 1864 in Indianapolis, IN.
After the War
In 1870 he was a laborer in Terra Haute, IN.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870.
He married Sarah Catherine "Kate" Woodruff (1844-1933) in July 1867 and they had 3 children by 1874. They were not living together in 1870, and Kate was a widow in 1880.
Birth
c. 1837 in IL
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. 286 [AotW citation 33391]
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 #339 [AotW citation 33392]