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(1839 - 1922)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
He probably came to America with his father in October 1848, and in 1860 was a 20 year old wagon maker living with Richard Maryfield and family at Bruceville in Knox County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company G, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right shoulder or 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 Washington, DC on 25 September 1862. He was wounded again, in the hand in the Wilderness, VA in May 1864 and mustered out with his company on 6 June 1864 in Indianapolis.
After the War
In 1870 he was again a wagon maker, at Freelandville in Knox County, IN but by 1880 was in Nemaha County, NE. In 1900 he was retired and lived near his son and family in Sherman County, NE and in 1910 was at Madison Square in Loup County, NE.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Elizabeth Wilhoit (1842-1914) in March 1865 and they had a son Edward Ulysses Grant Yocum (1868-1844).
Birth
12/05/1839; Lippe, East Prussia, GERMANY
Death
12/05/1922; Taylor Park, NE; burial in Madison Square Cemetery, Taylor, NE
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. 284 [AotW citation 33481]
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 #345 [AotW citation 33482]
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. 448 [AotW citation 33613]