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(c. 1837 - 1882)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 23 year old saddler and harness maker living with John H Wood and family at Loogootee in Martin County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his ankle 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 was promoted to Sergeant, date not given, and reenlisted on 15 December 1863. He transferred to Company B of the 20th Indiana Infantry on 6 June 1864.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a saddler and harness maker back in Loogootee, IN. He began receiving a veterans' pension for disability in August 1872.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Levi Redd, and Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Almira Brown (1843-1911) in April 1872 and they had 5 children.
Birth
c. 1837 in OH
Death
03/30/1882; Loogootee, IN; burial in Goodwill Cemetery, Loogootee, 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 33449]
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 #14 [AotW citation 33450]
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. 360 [AotW citation 33451]