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Federal (USV)

Private

John Montgomery

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Knox County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company B, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot 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 and transferred to Philadelphia the next day. He reenlisted on 15 December 1863 and was wounded again, in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864. He transferred to Company B of the 20th Indiana Infantry on 6 June 1864, transferred to Company H on 23 December, and mustered out with them on 12 July 1865.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2

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, pp. 276, 415, 443  [AotW citation 33440]

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 #351  [AotW citation 33441]