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(1839 - 1919)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 21 year old laborer living with Samuel Johnson and his 4 children on their farm at Carlisle in Sullivan County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company K, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in both thighs in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital (GH) #2 in Frederick, MD on 28 September, transferred to GH#1 on 9 October, then suffering from gangrene in his wound, and was sent on to Baltimore, MD on 15 June 1863. He mustered out with his company on 6 June 1864 in Indianapolis.
After the War
He began receiving a veterans' pension for disability in February 1865 and in 1870 was a farmer at Bloomington in Monroe County, IN. By 1880 and to at least 1900 he farmed back in Sullivan County. He was retired there in 1910.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, and his Pension Card, online from fold3.
He married Margaret Anne Sullenger (1844-1908) in October 1865 and they had 8 children. He married again, Nancy Ann Booker (1839-1937) in August 1910.
Birth
06/14/1839; Monroe County, IN
Death
10/26/1919; Carlisle, 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. 289 [AotW citation 33409]
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 #488 & #5.110 [AotW citation 33410]
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. 248 [AotW citation 33411]