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(1838 - 1878)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
On 8 June 1860 he was a 21 year old living with his parents and siblings on the family farm at Carlisle in Sullivan County, IN, but by the end of that month he had married and was a laborer with his own place at Perrysville in Vermillion County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company F, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was appointed First Sergeant, date not given, and mustered out with his company at Indianapolis, IN on 6 June 1864.
After the War
He began receiving a US pension for disability in January 1875.
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 (?; 1840-).
His brother John Pearce (1836-1907) was also in Company F, and lost an eye in action in the Wilderness, VA in 1864.
Birth
06/23/1838; Carlisle, IN
Death
07/02/1878; burial in Morris Chapel Cemetery, Knox County, 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. 282 [AotW citation 33562]
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. 347 [AotW citation 33563]