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M. Stafford
(1837 - 1883)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 23 year old living with his parents and 7 siblings on their farm at Black Oak Ridge in Daviess County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company C, 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 enroll in the regular US Army, and enlisted in Knoxville, MD on 24 October 1862 as a Private in Company K, 6th United States Cavalry. He was discharged at the end of his enlistment term on 24 April 1864.
After the War
He took his family west to Kansas in 1868 and by 1870 he was a farmer at Humboldt in Allen County, KS. In 1875 he was farming at Chanute in Neosho County, KS, and by 1880 in Chautauqua County, KS. He began receiving a US pension for disability in February 1883, but died of tuberculosis later that year at age 46.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General1 and the Registers.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, notably Michael Stafford and the Stafford Society, the US Census of 1860-1880, and the Kansas State Census of 1875. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a tinted photograph shared to the FamilySearch database by J A Howard in 2022.
He married Hannah Alford (1837-1922) in September 1864 and they had 10 children.
Birth
02/22/1837; Alfordsville, IN
Death
11/20/1883; Peru, KS; burial in Peru Cemetery, Peru, KS
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. 278 [AotW citation 33587]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, p. 810 [AotW citation 33588]
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. 398 [AotW citation 33589]