Francis David Ingersoll

In 1860 he was a 25 year old farmer living with his parents on their prosperous farm at Lee in Oneida County, NY. He enlisted on 1 May 1861 in Utica, NY to serve two years, and mustered on 21 May as a Private in Company B, 26th New York Infantry. He transferred to Company E on 1 November 1861.

He was wounded by a piece of shell which cut his scalp and bruised the front of his skull in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to the Carver Hospital in Washington, DC on 24 September and was discharged there for disability on 12 January 1863.

He enlisted again, on 30 August 1864 in Westmoreland, NY and mustered on 10 September as a Private in Company I, 15th New York Engineers. He mustered out with them on 13 June 1865.

By 1865, with his new wife, he was back on his parent's farm in Lee, NY but by 1870 was farming his own place at Annsville in Oneida County. In 1875 and to at least 1880 he lived in Luke Taylor's hotel in Albion, Orleans County, NY and was a real estate dealer.

His service basics from the State of New York,1 also as Frank Engersoll. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880 and the NY State Census of 1865 & 1875. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Emma Clem Stevens (1839-1911) in October 1863 in Erie, OH.

c. 1833; Oneida County, NY

10/13/1896; burial in Mount Albion Cemetery, Albion, NY