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W.P. Haskell
(1829 - 1910)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 30 year old farmer with his brother Gardner and family at Toronto, Vermillion County, IN. He enrolled on 23 April 1861 as a Lieutenant and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry on 7 June. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 13 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the face or head and chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged on 25 November 1863 to accept the commission of Captain of Company K of the 4th United States Colored Infantry. He resigned his commission 6 December 1864.
After the War
In 1900 he was a carpenter boarding with the Charles Bleadinghiser family in Marion, Grant County, IN, and he had retired and was boarding with Charles' daughter Lucretia Bleadinghiser there by 1910.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General1 and the Army Register.2 Wound detail from Nelson3 and his 1898 pension payment card. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1900, & 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture from a photograph contributed by Steve Harvey.
He married Martha W. Sweet (1833-1868) in Washington, DC in July 1863. He married again, Elizabeth (?; c. 1830-1890).
Birth
10/02/1829; Braintree, VT
Death
12/14/1910; Marion, IN; burial in Estates of Serenity, Marion, IN
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. 2, p. 119 [AotW citation 33514]
2 US Army, Adjutant General, Official Army Register of the Volunteer Forces, U. S. Army, 8 vols., Washington, DC: Adjutant General's Office, 1867, Vol. 8, p. 172 [AotW citation 33515]
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. 240 [AotW citation 33516]