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Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
From Knox County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company B, 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 reenlisted on 15 December 1863 and transferred to Company B, 20th Indiana Infantry on 6 June 1864. He mustered out with them on 12 July 1865 at Louisville, KY.
After the War
He began receiving a US pension for disability in April 1866.
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. 276 [AotW citation 33508]
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. 227 [AotW citation 33509]