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"Barney"
(1837 - 1907)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer living with his parents and 6 siblings on their farm at Linton in Greene 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 arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He enlisted in Baltimore on 11 November 1862 as a Private in Company E of the 5th United States Cavalry, but deserted them on 24 February 1863 and returned to the 14th Indiana. He transferred to the 20th Indiana Infantry on 6 June 1864.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmer at Linton in Greene County, IN but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he was farming in Sullivan County IN.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as William McClung, and the Registers.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Ellen M Wolfe (1846-1878) in September 1865 and they had 6 children. He married again, Othelia Budensky (1862-1882) in April 1879 and they had a son, Carl. He married for the third time Margaret Elizabeth Huffman (1866-1922) in November 1883 and they had two daughters.
His brother John was also in Company D.
Birth
12/13/1837; Linton, IN
Death
02/28/1907; Wabash, IN; burial in Old Linton Cemetery, Linton, 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. 279 [AotW citation 33549]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, p. 595 [AotW citation 33550]
3 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. 316 [AotW citation 33551]