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"Jack"
(1843 - 1903)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
Son of a teamster, in 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 4 siblings at Green Castle in Putnam County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in US Army hospitals in Frederick, MD and West Philadelphia. He was discharged to enroll in the regular US Army, and enlisted in Washington, DC on 29 November 1862 as a Private in Company L, 2nd United States Cavalry. He was discharged on 1 January 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA at the end of his enlistment.
After the War
By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a railroad engineer living in Terra Haute, IN.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General1 and the Registers.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Martha Ann Kelker (1849-1918) in December 1872 and they had 3 sons.
Birth
11/23/1843; Shelby, KY
Death
10/07/1903; Terre Haute, IN; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, 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. 279 [AotW citation 33596]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 57, p. 237 [AotW citation 33597]
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, pp. 421, 422 [AotW citation 33598]