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(c. 1833 - 1910)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
From Rockville in Parke County, IN, he enlisted and mustered in Terra Haute, IN on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company A, 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 for disability on 6 November 1862.
After the War
By 1870 he was a day laborer back in Rockville, IN.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from the Indianapolis Sentinel of 27 September 1862, as G.W. Finney. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870.
He married Nancy Lambert (1835-) in November 1855 and they had 3 children.
Birth
c. 1833; Steubenville, OH
Death
1910
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. 274 [AotW citation 33628]