Joseph Sell Dowdell

From Vermillion County, IN, he enlisted and mustered in Terra Haute, IN on 7 June 1861 as a Corporal in Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not found.

He was wounded in the head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was discharged to accept the commission as 2nd Lieutenant of Company E, 115th Indiana Infantry on 8 August 1863 and mustered out with them on 25 February 1865. He enrolled again, to date from 21 February as First Lieutenant of Company E, 149th Indiana Infantry, was promoted to Captain 2 days later. He mustered out on 27 September 1865 at Nashville, TN.

By 1875 he was a merchant at Shawnee in Johnson County, KS. He began receiving a US pension for disability in December 1885 and in 1900 was living with his daughter Martha in Topeka, KS.

His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 His wound at Antietam from a casualty list in the Indianapolis Sentinel of 27 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, the Kansas Census of 1875, and the US Census of 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

08/1837; Parke County, IN

08/17/1900; Topeka, KS; burial in Topeka Cemetery, Topeka, KS