William Houghton

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer living with his parents and 5 younger siblings on their place at Black Oak Ridge in Daviess County, IN. He enrolled and mustered on 11 June (to date from 7 June) 1861 as First Lieutenant of Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Captain on 13 May 1862.

He was wounded in the forearm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted a US Army General Hospital in Frederick, MD and sent on to Washington, DC, dates not given. He was wounded again, at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. He was appointed Major on 12 February 1863 and mustered out at the end of his term on 20 June 1864.

In 1870 he was a manufacturer living with his Reinhart in-laws at Loogootee in Martin County, IN but in 1880 was farming there. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a bank president in Loogootee.

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson;3 both have him as Major. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Kissie Eunice Reinhart (1847-1925) in January 1870.

His family papers, including some 200 of his wartime letters, are in the collection of the Indiana Historical Society [finding aid (pdf)].

10/28/1839; Martin County, IN

08/11/1918; Loogootee, IN; burial in Goodwill Cemetery, Loogootee, IN