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Federal (USV)

Private

Augustus May

(c. 1834 - 1870)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Putnam 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 leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 15 December 1863 and transferred to Company B of the 20th Indiana Infantry on 6 June 1864, then possibly to the Veteran Reserve Corps, date not given.

After the War

He began receiving a US pension for disability in January 1869.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from Nelson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Elizabeth Bowers (1843-1865) in August 1865 and they had 3 daughters.

Birth

c. 1834

Death

09/03/1870; Monroe County, IN; burial in Koontz Cemetery, Monroe 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. 279, 434 [AotW citation 33541]

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