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Federal (USV)

Private

William James Morgan

(1842 - 1865)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents and 4 siblings on their farm 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 shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability in April 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.

Birth

1842 in PA

Death

06/18/1865; Clay County, IN; burial in Old Union Cemetery, Lewis Township, Clay 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, p. 279 [AotW citation 33556]

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 33557]

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