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Federal (USV)

Private

Elias Loyd

(c. 1845 - ?)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents and 4 siblings on their farm at Mount Pleasant in Martin County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 4 January 1862 as a Private in Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He transferred to the 20th Indiana Infantry on 6 June 1864 and mustered out on 3 January 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farmer living with his mother and 3 younger siblings at Shoals in Martin County, IN.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brother William was also in Company C.

Birth

c. 1845; Shoals, 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. 278, 434 [AotW citation 33538]

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 33539]

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