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Federal (USV)

Corporal

James W. McHenry

(c. 1834 - 1868)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 26 year old printer living with his mother and younger sister in Vincennes, Knox County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Corporal in Company B, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the thigh, his femur broken, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and transferred to Philadelphia on 30 September 1862. He was discharged for disability on 6 December 1862.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1834 in IN

Death

04/04/1868; burial in Greenlawn Cemetery, Vincennes, IN

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. 275 [AotW citation 33438]

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 #4.774 [AotW citation 33439]

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