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Federal (USV)

Private

John Cooper

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his mother, step-father William Mood, and 7 Mood half-siblings on the Mood farm at Bloomfield in Greene County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged on 29 October to serve in the US Regular Army and enlisted on 15 November 1862 in Baltimore as a Private in Company I of the 5th United States Cavalry. He died of smallpox on 28 January 1863 in camp near Potomac Creek, VA.

His mother began to receive a US pension in April 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General,1 the Registers,2 and his Pension Card, as John M Cooper, online from fold3. His wound detail from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1843; Greene County, IN

Death

01/28/1863; in VA

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. 279 [AotW citation 33493]

2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 54, p. 241 [AotW citation 33494]

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. 172 [AotW citation 33495]

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