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(1841 - 1912)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer living with his parents and 3 siblings on the family farm in Wonewoc, Juneau County, WI. He enlisted in Lodi, WI on 12 June 1861 and mustered in Madison as a Private in Company A, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 16 August.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left ankle in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His leg was amputated below the knee on 14 September, and he was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 19 September. He required a second, intermediate amputation on 4 October due to gangrene setting in, and was discharged for disability in Frederick on 2 April 1863. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability about August 1863.
After the War
He was provided an artificial leg from St. Elizabeth Hospital (Washington, DC?), but couldn't wear it. In 1870 he was a harness maker back in Wonewoc, but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Juneau County. In 1910 he was retired and living with his daughter Nellie and her family in Wonewoc.
References & notes
His service from the State of Wisconsin1 and his Compiled Service Records (CSRs).2 Additional wound and hospital details from the Patient List 3 and the MSHWR.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Kathy Steckelberg for sharing her research in Grant's CSRs and pension files.
He married Mary Ward (1849-1897) in January 1867 and they had 2 daughters, Emma Jane and Nellie G, born in 1867 and 1874. He married again, Nancy Caroline Lancaster (1846-1915) in February 1900.
Birth
03/03/1841; Gloucestershire, ENGLAND
Death
06/10/1912; Juneau County, WI; burial in Pine Eden Cemetery, Wonewoc, WI
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. 540 - 543 [AotW citation 10530]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31216]
3 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 #4.225 [AotW citation 31217]
4 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 3. p. 516 [AotW citation 31218]