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(1840 - 1897)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
From Putnam County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 14 February 1863.
After the War
By 1880 he was a farmer in Taylor County, IA.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General.1 with wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Ellenora Ora Neal (1845-1890) in September 1863 and they had 11 children. He married again, Sarah Isabell Coil (1862-1901) in December 1892 and they had 3 more.
Birth
12/04/1840; Greene County, IN
Death
10/27/1897; Payne County, OK; burial in Perkins Cemetery, Perkins, OK
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 33511]
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. 237 [AotW citation 33512]