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(1836 - 1912)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer at Newport in Vermillion County, IN. He enlisted as a recruit and mustered on 29 August 1862 as a Private in Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded, a finger shot off in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the US Army hospital at Camp Curtin near Harrisburg, PA and later listed as a deserter from a hospital in Washington, DC. He transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, date not found.
After the War
By 1875 he was in Oakland, CA but by 1880 was farming at Duwamish in King County, WA. He was back in Oakland by 1890 and was a carpenter there in 1900 and a produce peddler in Oakland in 1910, then 75 years old.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as Lemuel S Wittermode. Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910, and the California Great Registers of 1875 and 1890. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Rachel Stakely (1836-1863) in November 1857 and they had a daughter Charlotte Emily (1858-). He married again, Mary Ann Thompson (1840-1909) in 1866 and they had 5 children.
Birth
08/1836 in IN
Death
02/24/1912; Oakland, CA; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, CA
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. 288 [AotW citation 33611]
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. 442 [AotW citation 33612]