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(c. 1838 - ?)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
A chair maker's son, in 1860 he was a 23 year old wood turner living in Henry Wyant's boarding house in Vincennes, Knox County, IN. He enlisted and mustered in Terra Haute, IN on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company B, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given, and transferred to Company A, First Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps in 1863.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from the Indianapolis Sentinel of 27 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1838 in OH
Death
Date not known; burial in Archer Cemetery, Princeton, 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. 276 [AotW citation 33629]