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Federal (USV)

Private

Willis Lemons

(? - 1864)

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 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 24 September for "debility" and transferred to Washington, DC the next day. He reenlisted on 15 December 1863, was mortally wounded, place and date not given, and died of wounds on 19 April 1864.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as Willis Lemmons. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as William Lemon, and Nelson.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

04/19/1864; Alexandria, VA; burial in Alexandria National Cemetery, Alexandria, VA

Notes

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 33430]

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 #44 [AotW citation 33431]

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. 287 [AotW citation 33432]

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