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(1833 - 1924)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
A painter, he enlisted and mustered in Terra Haute, IN on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged on 23 October 1862 and enlisted as a Private in Company C, 6th United States Cavalry. He was discharged at the end of his enlistment on 4 June 1865 at Alexandria, VA.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Grundy County, MO. In 1920 he was retired and living with his daughter Leona and her family there.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as William B Shearron, and the Registers.2 Wound detail from the Indianapolis Sentinel of 27 September 1862, as W.R. Shuman. Personal details from family genealogists, also as William Byron Sherrow, and the US Census of 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Rebecca Ann Claypole (1846-1897) in May 1866 and they had 5 children.
Birth
01/25/1833; Orange County, IN
Death
11/22/1924; burial in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Laredo, MO
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. 278 [AotW citation 33630]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, p. 810 [AotW citation 33631]