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Federal (USV)

Private

William H. Love

(1834 - 1909)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 25 year old artist living with his father and siblings on their farm at Loogootee in Martin County, IN. He mustered on 19 August 1862 as a Private in Company H, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded (bruised) in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company B of the 20th Indiana Infantry on 6 June 1864 and transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 13 March 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was farming with his father and siblings at Loogootee in Martin County, IN. In 1900 he was a photographer at Patoka in Gibson County, IN.

References & notes

Service information from the Adjutant General1 with wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

10/17/1834; Martin County, IN

Death

11/21/1909; Cannelburg, IN; burial in Loves Chapel Cemetery, Perry Township, Martin County, 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, pp. 286, 415, 443 [AotW citation 33535]

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. 294 [AotW citation 33536]

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