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(1835 - 1905)
Home State: Ohio
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 23rd Ohio Infantry
Before Antietam
Son of a machinist and trained in that trade, in April 1861 he enlisted for 3 months' service as a Private in Company F, 23rd Ohio Infantry. He reenlisted in that unit on 5 June for a term of 3 years.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot which fractured the frontal bone in his skull.
The rest of the War
He had fragments of skull bone removed from his wound and was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 28 September but was sent on the Camden Street Hospital in Baltimore 2 days later. As he recovered, he also served at the hospital as a nurse. He returned to duty on 16 May 1864 and mustered out with his company on 26 July 1865.
After the War
Immediately after the war he was a teacher for 14 years in Monroe Township, Logan County, OH and from 1879 to at least 1900 was a carpenter and storekeeper, at least initially in partnership with his brother Joseph, who lived next door in 1880. In 1880 he was also a Justice of the Peace and a Notary. At the US Veteran Census of 1890 he was living at Mount Victory, Hardin County, OH and in 1900 in Perry Township, Logan County.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of Ohio,1 as Zeniphia Laport. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR,3 both as Zephaniah Laporte. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1900, and his bio sketch in Basking's History of Logan County and Ohio (1880). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah J. Williams (1848-1921) in March 1866 and they had 3 children.
Birth
07/04/1835; Rushcreek Township, OH
Death
10/14/1905; Logan County, OH; burial in Goshen Quaker Cemetery, Jefferson Township, OH
1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 3, p. 106 [AotW citation 8188]
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 #593 [AotW citation 31269]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 222 [AotW citation 31270]