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Federal (USV)

Private

John Baptiste Zuber

(1827 - 1872)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 30 year old laborer at Vincennes 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 hand 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 was sent on to Philadelphia the next day. He was discharged for disability on 10 December 1862.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farmer back in Vincennes, IN.

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 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amanda “Minnie” Mindermann (1833-1918) in 1853 and they had 8 children.

Birth

06/27/1827; Rohrwiller, Alsace, FRANCE

Death

04/21/1872; Vincennes, IN; burial in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Vincennes, 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. 284 [AotW citation 33483]

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 #48 [AotW citation 33484]

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. 294 [AotW citation 33540]

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