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(1835 - 1901)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
From Monroe County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company K, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the finger in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He mustered out with his company on 6 June 1864 in Indianapolis.
After the War
He began receiving a US pension for disability in March 1879 and in 1880 he was a blacksmith in Scott County, IN. By 1900 was a smith at Crothersville in Jackson County, IN.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as William H Trissler. Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married (cousin?) Sarah Jane Hoover (1845-1891) in May 1866 and they had 4 children. He married again, Isabelle Price (1857-1944).
Birth
08/17/1835; Jessamine County, KY
Death
09/21/1901; Crothersville, IN; burial in Crothersville Cemetery, Crothersville, 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. 289 [AotW citation 33594]
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. 417 [AotW citation 33595]