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Federal (USV)

Private

James A. McDowell

(c. 1839 - 1930)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farm worker living with his parents and a brother on their farm at Toronto in Vermillion County, IN. He enlisted in Terra Haute and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 20 September and was sent on to Washington, DC on 12 November 1862. He transferred to Company G, First Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps in February 1864 and was discharged at the end of his term in April 1864. He enlisted again, on 7 February 1865 as a Sergeant in Company A, 149th Indiana Infantry and he was discharged on 27 September 1865.

After the War

He was an unmarried farmer at South Bend, IN. He was admitted to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Marion, IN in July 1913, transferred to the Home in Danville, IL in November 1913, and transferred back to Marion in August 1915. He was readmitted at Danville in August 1916 and transferred to the Home in Hampton, VA on 10 September 1920. He died there in Annex #1 at 10:30am on 8 September 1930.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as J.A. McDonald. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and the Registers.3

Birth

c. 1839; Vermillion County, IN

Death

09/08/1930; Hampton, VA; burial in Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, 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. 287; V. 7, p. 548 [AotW citation 33433]

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 #245 [AotW citation 33434]

3 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938, registration #12073, #12357 [AotW citation 33435]

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