Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 2nd Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
From Portage, he enlisted in Company G, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry on 19 April 1861, and was promoted First Lieutenant on 25 April. He was wounded in action at First Bull Run in July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Captain of the Company on 26 January 1863, but resigned 1 July 1863.
References & notes
Basic information from State of Wisconsin1.
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, pp. 364 - 365 [AotW citation 10197]