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(1839 - 1899)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 20 year old day laborer living with his uncle John Kesler and family on their farm at Concord in Tippecanoe 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 nose in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 4 March 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmer at Helt in Vermillion County, IN, in 1875 he was farming at Blue Mound in Linn County, KS, and by 1880 at Big Creek in Henry County, MO.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as George H Gwin. Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and the Kansas State Census of 1875. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his government stone also has him as George H Gwin.
He married Margaret V. Benson (1837-1888) in September 1864 and they had 4 children born in Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas.
Birth
09/13/1839; Tippecanoe County, IN
Death
05/14/1899; in IN; burial in Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Bridgeton, 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 33569]
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. 356 [AotW citation 33570]