George W. Spainhower

In 1860 he was a 22 year old living with his parents and 2 younger sisters at Spencer in Owen County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company H, 14th Indiana Infantry.

He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was discharged for disability on 23 March 1863 and began receiving a US Pension in June 1863.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was an unmarried farmer living with his parents on their farm at Oxford in Benton County, IN.

His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as George W. Spainbower. Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists, as George Spainhour, and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1838 in IN

03/19/1887; Benton County, AR; burial in Bloomfield Cemetery, Gentry, AR