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(c. 1843 - 1862)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
Son of a farmer, he was orphaned at his mother's death in 1859. In 1860 he was a 17 year old farm worker living with Benjamin E Scott and family and his sister Eliza at Dover Hill in Martin County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 30 August 1862 as a Private in the 14th Indiana Infantry. He was assigned to Company C, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was mortally 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 29 September and died there on 23 October 1862.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1843 in IN
Death
10/23/1862; Frederick, MD
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. 290 [AotW citation 33452]