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(c. 1817 - 1872)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
Probably born Francois Soudriet, in 1860 he was a 43 year old retail grocer at Vincennes in 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 was discharged for disability on 29 January 1863.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as Frank Soudriet. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Franklin Soudreth. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as F.L. Soudriette.
He married Suzanne Bonneau (1811-1850) in January 1837 and they had 6 children. He married again, Veronique Levron (1817-1891) in October 1850 and they had 2 more. Some references suggest another marriage, to Suzanne Dequindre Bellett (1850-1906) and another son, William (1865-1940).
Birth
c. 1817; Vincennes, IN
Death
07/07/1872; burial in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Vincennes, 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. 276 [AotW citation 33455]
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 #350 [AotW citation 33456]