Emanuel Fulp

In 1850 he was a 27 year old farmer in Forsythe County, NC, and owned a 13 year old girl slave; he may have inherited a second, a woman named Violet, at his father-in-law's death in 1852. By 1860, though, he was a farmer in Bartholomew County, IN. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company C, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861. He was wounded in action at Winchester (25 May 1862) and Cedar Mountain (9 August 1862) prior to the Maryland Campaign.

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862

by a minie ball which entered at the internal angle of the axilla [armpit], passed directly through the upper lobe of the left lung near its edge, and emerged at the infra-spinus fossa of the scapula [shoulder blade].

He "spat blood only for a few days" and was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 4 October and was treated by Acting Assistant Surgeon A.V. Cherbonnier for the wound and probably pneumonia. He had bone fragments removed on 25 October, by the 28th "all the symptoms were better," and on the 30th he "sits up and is cheerful." He kept improving and was able to walk around but on 8 November developed a fever and began to go downhill. He died of massive infection of his left lung on 15 November 1862.

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as Corporal Emanuel Tulp, Company E. His service from Brown2 and the Indiana Adjutant General.3 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 4 and the MSHWR,5 quoted above. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one oh whom has him as Emanuel R. Fulp, the US Population Census of 1850 & 1860, and the US Slave Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Ann "Polly" Fulp (2nd cousin, 1813-1900) in August 1841 in Stokes County, NC and they had 5 children by 1851.

06/22/1822; Stokes County, NC

11/15/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD