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(1834 - 1920)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 26 year old living with his parents and 5 siblings on their farm at Brookston in White County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Sergeant in Company K, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 30 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 4 January 1863 and to Captain on 1 March. He was wounded again, in the left leg at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May and his leg was amputated at the thigh. He was discharged due to his disability on 1 March 1863 at Georgetown, DC.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Monticello in White County, IN. In 1900 he was a wool dealer there but by 1910 was retired and lived with his daughter Molly (Butler, later Greist) and her son J. Ward Butler (1905-1918) in New Castle, IN. He was admitted to the Marion (IN) Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers on 26 May 1920 and was discharged on 29 June that year.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 who says he resigned his commission in August 1863. Antietam wound detail from Nelson2 and Chancellorsville details from the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, and the Registers.4 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Catherine Cynthia Rawlins (1838-1919) in May 1864 and they had at least 5 children.
Birth
05/07/1834; Monroe County, IN
Death
10/19/1920; Monticello, IN; burial in IOOF Riverview Cemetery, Monticello, 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. 2, p. 119; Vol. 4, p. 288 [AotW citation 33602]
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. 427 [AotW citation 33603]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883 [AotW citation 33604]
4 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938, registration #14757 [AotW citation 33605]