(1831 - 1904)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
From Fountain City, he enlisted in Company H, 6th Wisconsin Infantry on 10 May 1861. He was promoted to Corporal, Sergeant, then First Sergeant.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action in September 1862.
The rest of the War
Appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 10 March 1863. Wounded again, in action at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863. Discharged 7 September 1864.
After the War
He was a surveyor in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin until at least 1880.
References & notes
Basic information from State of Wisconsin1. Further details from family genealogists.
Birth
1831 in NY
Death
12/10/1904; burial in Little Rock National Cemetery, Little Rock, AR
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. 525 - 528 [AotW citation 10407]