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(1823 - 1901)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
From Martin County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in the leg 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 28 September, transferred to GH#2 on 9 October, and returned to duty from the hospital on 10 November 1862. He mustered out with his company on 6 June 1864.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Martin County, IN.
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 and the US Census of 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Phebe Kinser (1824-1874) in January 1844 and they had 9 children. He married again, Arena Frances McClelland (1847-1923) in February 1876 and they had 3 more.
Birth
11/08/1823; Lawrence County, IN
Death
04/19/1901; Martin County, IN; burial in Indian Creek Primitive Church Cemetery, Williams, 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. 277 [AotW citation 33419]
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 #502 & #5.107 [AotW citation 33420]
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. 260 [AotW citation 33421]