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(1834 - 1907)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
From Owen County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Corporal in Company H, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the side in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He mustered out with his company on 7 June 1864.
After the War
By 1870 he was a laborer in Evansville in Vanderburgh County, IN but by 1880 he was a railroad engineer in Cambridge, Guernsey County, OH. He'd retired there by 1900.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General,1 as Charles Tignor. Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1900, and the US Veteran Census of 1890. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Margaret/Mary (?, c. 1835-aft. 1880) before 1870. He married again, Henrietta Bell (1844-1922) in May 1893.
Birth
02/18/1834; Harpers Ferry, VA
Death
06/20/1907; Cambridge, OH; burial in Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridge, OH
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. 285 [AotW citation 33504]
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. 207 [AotW citation 33505]