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(1832 - 1903)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
He arrived in America on 2 September 1847 at age 15, and by July 1850 was an 18 year old laborer living on the J. Shuttleworth farm at Black Rock near Buffalo in Erie County, NY. On 28 June 1861, giving his residence as Calumet, WI, he enlisted as a Private in Company E, 6th Wisconsin Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #2 in the Jail Street School at Frederick, MD on 27 September. He was sent on to a hospital in Baltimore on 31 October. He was discharged for disability on 2 February 1864 and began receiving a veteran's pension in March.
After the War
By 1880 he was a laborer in Great Bend in Susquehanna County, PA. He was still there for the US Veteran's Census of June 1890, when he reported suffering from a crippled arm and diseased eyes. In 1900 he was retired and living with his wife and son William in Great Bend.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of Wisconsin.1. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1850, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to great-grandson Jack Ottaway for personal information about his ancestor and the poke to look further into him.
He married Paulina (?; c. 1841-) in about 1870 and they had 3 sons and a daughter; only son William (b. 1879) survived to 1900.
Birth
03/12/1832; Saarluis, Saarland, GERMANY
Death
10/11/1903; Great Bend, PA; burial in Saint Lawrence Cemetery, Great Bend, PA
1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, p. 514 [AotW citation 6135]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #404 [AotW citation 31326]