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Federal (USV)

Private

Archibald Gilkison

(1840 - 1865)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his widowed mother Jane and 4 siblings on their farm at Mount Pleasant in Martin County, VA. He enlisted and mustered on 30 August 1862 and was assigned as a Private to Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his back 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 22 September 1862 and transferred to Philadelphia, PA the next day.

He had (probably) later service in Company E of the 20th Indiana Infantry and transferred to Company H on 18 October 1864. He died at home of disease on 25 February 1865.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as Archibald Gilkerson and Gilkenson. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as A. Gilpison, and Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

05/22/1840 in OH

Death

02/25/1865; Loogootee, IN; burial in Truelove Cemetery, Loogootee, 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. 4, pp. 290, 420 [AotW citation 33393]

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 #41 [AotW citation 33394]

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. 223 [AotW citation 33395]

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