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Federal (USV)

Private

Francis Martin Law

(1843 - 1900)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Owen County, IN, he mustered as a Private in Company H, 14th Indiana Infantry on 7 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in Army hospitals in Frederick, MD and West Philadelphia, and was discharged for disability on 24 March 1863. He enlisted again, and mustered on 19 September 1863 as a Private in Company M of the 6th Indiana Cavalry (71st Regiment). He was promoted to Sergeant, and mustered out with them on 15 September 1865 in Murfreesboro, TN.

After the War

At the US Veterans' Census of 1890 he was in Pennington, SD. In June 1900 he was a day laborer in Rapid City, SD but by August that year he was a resident of the State Soldiers' Home at Hot Springs in Fall River County, SD.

References & notes

Service information from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Rachel Ann Laizure (1855-1914) in September 1873 and they had 6 children.

Birth

08/15/1843; Guernsey County, OH

Death

09/10/1900; Deadwood, SD; burial in State Veterans Home Cemetery, Hot Springs, SD

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. 286; Vol. 6, p. 160 [AotW citation 33531]

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. 284 [AotW citation 33532]

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