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(1837 - 1912)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer on the James Redhoffer place near Kansas City, MO. Giving his residence as Owen County, IN, he mustered as a Private in Company H, 14th Indiana Infantry on his 24th birthday, 7 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He mustered out with his company on 6 June 1864 in Indianapolis.
After the War
In 1870 he was a tinner (tinsmith) in Terra Haute, IN but by 1880 was a tinsmith at Hiawatha in Brown County, KS. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in February 1894. By 1900, and to at least 1910, still working as a tinner, he lived at New Albany in Floyd County, IN.
References & notes
Service information from the Adjutant General1 with wound detail from Nelson;2 both as Isaac Lease. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, and his Pension Card, online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Catherine Mann (1842-1888) in April 1865 and they had 2 daughters. He married again, Mary Jane Steepleton (1858-1936) and they had a daughter Pearlie (1896-1963).
Birth
06/07/1837; Allegheny County, PA
Death
12/04/1912; New Albany, IN; burial in New Albany National Cemetery, New Albany, 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. 4, p. 286 [AotW citation 33533]
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. 285 [AotW citation 33534]