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(1827 - 1907)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
He married in 1846 in Williamson, NY, was farming on his parent's place in Chester, OH in 1850, and in 1860 was a 33 year old farmer in his own right in Lodi, WI. He enlisted there on 12 June 1861 and he mustered as a Corporal in Company A, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 16 August. By then he'd had 6 children, 4 of whom were living.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right foot in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Satterlee US Army General Hospital in Philadelphia and was discharged there on 12 December 1862 for disability due to his inability to march. He began receiving a pension in May 1863, but had apparently fully recovered by March 1865, when he organized and was commissioned Captain of Company E, 50th Wisconsin Infantry. He mustered out of service with them on 19 April 1866.
After the War
He was farming in Butler County, IA in 1870, but bought a homestead in Rock County, MN in 1878. He lived and worked there, in Magnolia, MN, for the rest of his life.
References & notes
Service information from State of Wisconsin,1 Quiner,2 and his Compiled Service Records.3. Personal details from family genealogists, most notably his Phinneysplace page compiled by Dale Phinney, and the US Census of 1850-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Kathy Steckelberg for sharing her research in his CSRs and pension files.
He married Fanny Maria Cady (1826-1902) and they had 9 children by 1873.
Birth
03/14/1827; Catlin, NY
Death
09/29/1907; Magnolia, MN; burial in Maplewood Cemetery, Luverne, MN
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, 877 [AotW citation 10533]
2 Quiner, Edwin Bentley, The Military History of Wisconsin, Chicago: Clarke & Company, Publishers, 1866, pg. 452 [AotW citation 10626]
3 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 31226]