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Federal (USV)

Private

Marcus Conover

(1843 - 1900)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of a master mason, in 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 3 siblings in Terre Haute, Vigo County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company F, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his company on 6 June 1864 at Indianapolis.

After the War

In 1870 he was a plasterer again living with his parents and siblings in Terra Haute but by 1880 and to 1900, still a plasterer, had his own household there.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 His wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Gunn (1848-1922) and they had at least 3 children.

Birth

08/14/1843; Cincinnati, OH

Death

09/09/1900; Terra Haute, IN; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, 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. 282 [AotW citation 33490]

2 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. 170 [AotW citation 33491]

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