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Federal (USV)

Private

John Daniel Moreland

(c. 1835 - 1892)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 26 year old living with his widowed mother on the James Neil farm at Elletsville in Monroe County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company K, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was transferred to Company B of the 3rd Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps on 1 July 1863.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farmer at Bloomington in Monroe County, IN. He began receiving a US pension for disability in February 1880.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General1 and his Pension Card, online from fold3. Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ann B. Christy (1846-1943) in August 1865 and they had 9 children.

Birth

c. 1835; Owen County, IN

Death

01/10/1891; Greene County, IN; burial in Worthington Cemetery, Worthington, 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. 289 [AotW citation 33554]

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. 327 [AotW citation 33555]

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