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Federal (USV)

Private

John Jacob McClung

(1826 - 1870)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 32 year old farmer at Jackson Court House in Jackson County, OH. He enlisted and mustered on 2 September 1862 as a Private in Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He transferred to the brigade band on 1 May 1863 and to the 20th Indiana Infantry on 6 June 1864.

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 gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Jane McCray (1832-1899) in September 1850 and they had 4 children.

Birth

09/26/1826 in OH

Death

04/16/1870; burial in Old Linton Cemetery, Linton, 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, p. 280 [AotW citation 33542]

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. 307 [AotW citation 33543]

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