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(1831 - 1901)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
He came to America in 1842 at about 11 years old. In 1860 he was a 27 year old tinner (tinsmith) at Evansville in Vanderburgh County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company E, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again, on 1 June 1864, and mustered out with his company on 6 June 1864 in Indianapolis.
After the War
By 1870 he was a laundry worker back in Evansville, IN and in 1880 was an iron founder there. He was still in Evansville in 1900, but probably retired by then.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as August Shultz. Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Martha (?; 1833-1875) in Indiana in May 1853, and they had 5 or 6 children. He married again, Sarah (?; 1839-1921) in 1878 and they had 1 or 2 daughters.
Birth
04/1831; Hesse-Darmstadt, GERMANY
Death
07/10/1901; in IN; burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, 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. 281 [AotW citation 33578]
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. 378 [AotW citation 33579]