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(1838 - 1902)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
He was orphaned in 1850 at age 12, and in 1860 he was a 22 year old farm worker living with John Jones and his family on their farm at Eugene, 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 left hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 28 September 1862 and transferred to Philadelphia, PA on 9 November 1862. He mustered out with his company at Indianapolis, IN on 6 June 1864.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again a farm worker in Vermillion County, IN.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as J.H. Grear, and Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Anna Elida Hughes (1847-1901) in May 1868 and they had 5 chidren.
Birth
03/31/1838; Eugene, IN
Death
07/28/1902; Eugene, IN; burial in Hughes Cemetery, Perrysville, 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. 287 [AotW citation 33396]
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 #4.777 [AotW citation 33397]
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. 229 [AotW citation 33398]