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Federal (USV)

Corporal

James Richardson

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Owen County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Corporal in Company H, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the ear and finger in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was appointed First Sergeant, date not found, and mustered out with his company in Indianapolis on 6 June 1864.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from Nelson.2

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. 285 [AotW citation 33571]

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. 364 [AotW citation 33572]

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