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Federal (USV)

Private

William W. Davis

(1838 - 1914)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farm worker on George W Trueblood's place at Mount Pleasant in Martin County, IN. He enlisted and mustered as a recruit on 30 August 1862 and was assigned as a Private to Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the chest 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 1862 and transferred to Philadelphia the next day.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Loogootee in Martin County, IN. By 1910 he was retired and lived in Lone Wolf, Kiowa County, OK.

References & notes

His service 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 1860-1880, 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Jemima Gilkison (1836-1921) in September 1865 and they had 4 children.

Birth

05/28/1838 in OH

Death

10/28/1914; Lone Wolf, OK; burial in Lone Wolf Cemetery, Lone Wolf, OK

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. 290 [AotW citation 33498]

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 #42 [AotW citation 33499]

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. 184 [AotW citation 33500]

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