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(c. 1831 - 1899)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 29 year old farmer at Deem in Owen County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company H, 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 #1 in Frederick, MD on 24 September and was detailed there as a hospital attendant the same day. He was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 1 November 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a wagon maker at Freedom in Owen County, IN.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as Jesse Wellborn. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Jesse Willburn. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah Ann Hall (1831-1855) in January 1850 and they had a son William. He married again, Nancy A Conway (1826-1860) in November 1856 and they had 3 more children. He married, thirdly, Matilda Crockell (1840-) who had 3 children by 1875. He married for the fourth time, the widow Sarah Ellen Houston Harrah (1832-1915) in February 1881.
Birth
c. 1831; Bloomfield, IN
Death
1899; Hanford, CA; burial in Hanford Cemetery, Hanford, CA
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. 286 [AotW citation 33477]
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 #4.461 [AotW citation 33478]