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Federal (USV)

Private

James Mathias Winans

(1835 - 1899)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 25 year old farmer at Augusta Station in Marion 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 to his arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 22 September and was sent on to Baltimore on 31 December 1862. He was discharged for disability on 10 April 1863 and began receiving a veteran's pension later that month.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again a farmer at Augusta Station, IN.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah J Tomlinson (1837-1900) in December 1858 and they had 4 children.

Birth

05/06/1835; Bath County, KY

Death

05/13/1899; Marion County, IN; burial in Jones Chapel Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN

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, p. 286 [AotW citation 33479]

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 #341 [AotW citation 33480]

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