Enlisted on 8 August 1862 at Camden, Schuyler County, Illinois at 23 years of age; mustered in on 7 October 1862 at Quincy, Adams County, Illinoic, Company F, 119th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private; absent from his unit, sick and hospitalized 25 October 1862 *; died of disease on 15 November 1862 at Quincy, Illinois.

* "Clinical Records of the Continued Fevers.-- Typhus Fever. -- Case 3. — Private Isaac H. Starr, Co. F, 119th Ill.; age 23; was admitted Oct. 25, 1862, having been sick for about four weeks with fever. Diagnosis — typhus fever. On admission the tongue was dry and red, dark in the centre, pulse 92, skin dry and hot, bowels not painful but moved three or fonr times in twenty-four hours; he had much thirst and some cough. Turpentine emulsion and syrup of ipecacuanha were prescribed. He was restless aud somewhat delirious during the night but perspired slightly towards the morning of the 26th; during the day he had occasional but slight epistaxis. Small doses of opium and quinine were added to the treatment. The skin continued moist, the stools became less frequent, and on the 30th the tongue lost its dryness and began to clean, but the patient talked incoherently and was seized with a general tremor on moving. On November 1 he seemed somewhat better; the tongue was moist, pulse 78, but the tremors of the hands continued. The dose of turpentine was increased and whiskey was added to it. There was a slight improvement up to the 6th, when the mind again wandered and the tongue became dry, red and cracked transversely in the centre; the bowels were neither loose nor tender, but the recti muscles were somewhat tense. Next day there was tremulousness of the muscles of the face with subsultus; the patient was drowsy and his mind feeble; the bowels became loose on the afternoon of this day but were controlled by tannin and morphia. On the 8th the intelligence returned. The tongue and skin were moist on the 9th, but the former became somewhat dry next day, and in the afternoon while perspiring profusely a copious bloody dejection was passed from the bowels. Similar bloody stools recurred on the 11th, after which the pulse became feeble and the general appearance of the patient unfavorable. Opium, tannin, quinine aud capsicum were given with whiskey, beef-soup and egg mixture; but the stools continued bloody or wine-colored, though less frequent; the pulse was very feeble and the features shrunken. Opiate enemata were also used. On the 14th there was nausea and a quantity of green liquid was vomited. Death occurred on the 15th. — Hospital, Quincy, III." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume I. (3rd Medical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1888.