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(1839 - 1915)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 21 year old blacksmith living with farmer Thomas Franklin and family in Spencer, Owen County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company H, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by gunshots to his head, left forearm, right thigh, and left shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant to date from 18 September 1862. He was admitted to US Army General Hospital (GH) #4 in Frederick, MD on 22 September, his ulna (forearm bone) was removed, and he was transferred to GH#1 there on 15 January 1863. He returned to duty, date not given, and was wounded again, by a gunshot to his abdomen near his navel at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He was treated at the Seminary Hospital in Georgetown, DC where the bullet "ejected" itself on 8 May, and was sent home on furlough on 13 June. He was discharged for wounds on 18 September 1863.
He served again, as 2nd Lieutenant of Company H, 137th Indiana Infantry, a 90-day unit, from 10 May to 21 September 1864. They were on railroad guard duty in Tennessee and Alabama during their term.
After the War
He began receiving a veterans' pension for disability in February 1865 and in 1870 was again a blacksmith, at Bateham in Sullivan County, IN. In 1880 he was a blacksmith in Vigo County, IN and by 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a notary public there.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 Nelson,3 and the MSHWR.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Jane Holtsclaw Biddle (1845-1917) in August 1865 and they had 4 children.
Birth
05/25/1839; Mooresville, IN
Death
02/28/1915; Terra Haute, 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. 118; V. 3, p. 314; V. 4, p. 285 [AotW citation 33399]
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 #324 [AotW citation 33400]
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. 238 [AotW citation 33401]
4 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, pp. 99-100 [AotW citation 33402]