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(1843 - 1893)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his widowed mother Mary and 3 siblings at Princeton in Gibson County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company A, 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 to join the regular US Army and enlisted on 22 October 1862 at Bolivar near Harpers Ferry, VA as a Private in Battery C of the 4th United States Artillery. He reenlisted at Brandy Station, VA on 13 February 1864 and was discharged at Ft. Whipple (later Ft. Myer), VA on 13 February 1867, then the battery's Bugler.
After the War
By 1870 he was a wood turner back at Princeton in Gibson County, IN, but in 1880 was a wood turner at Petersburg in Pike County, IN. He began receiving a US pension for disability in October 1891.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General1 and the Register.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and his Pension Card, online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Elizabeth Braselton (1851-1933) in September 1868.
Birth
03/03/1843; Gibson County, IN
Death
05/26/1893; Petersburg, IN; burial in Walnut Hills Cemetery, Pike 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. 274 [AotW citation 33564]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, p. 365; Vol. 60, p. 297 [AotW citation 33565]
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. 352 [AotW citation 33566]