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(c. 1841 - 1920)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents and 6 siblings on their farm at Ellettsville in 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 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 Battery C, 3rd United States Artillery. He was discharged at the end of his enlistment on 22 April 1864.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Ellettsville in Monroe County, IN. He'd retired there by 1910.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General1 and the Registers.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910; various references have his birth from 1841 to 1844. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah Lou Thompson (1840-aft. 1910) in 1865 and they had a son Elmer (1865-1938).
Birth
c. 1841; Greene County, IN
Death
08/11/1920; Ellettsville, IN; burial in Methodist Cemetery, Ellettsville, 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 33608]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, p. 910 [AotW citation 33609]
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. 439 [AotW citation 33610]