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Federal (USV)

Private

Andrew Jackson Hattabough

(1838 - 1924)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farm worker living with his father and 3 siblings on their farm near Newberry in Greene County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry.

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 on 29 October 1862 to join the Regular US Army and had enlisted at Knoxville, MD on 21 October as a Private in Company C of the 6th United States Cavalry. He was discharged on 6 June 1864 at the end of his original term of enlistment.

After the War

By 1875 he was a farmer in San Francisco, CA and in 1880 he was a milker in San Mateo County, CA. By 1900 he was back at Newberry in Greene County, IN, a farmer there, and he'd retired in Newberry by 1910.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General1 and the Registers.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, a San Francisco City Directory of 1875, and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Emma Buskirk (1845-1921) in September 1889.

Birth

08/25/1838; Greene County, IN

Death

10/28/1924; Linton, IN; burial in Marco Cemetery, Marco, IN

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. 279 [AotW citation 33517]

2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 55, p. 219 [AotW citation 33519]

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 33520]

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