Enlisted in Company B of the Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry on June 20,1861, for 3 years. Taken prisoner at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 2,1863. Returned to his company on August 12, 1863. Re-enlisted on December 29,1863. On detached service with Company B of the the First Michigan Infantry, by order, July 2,1864 at Petersburg, Virginia. Taken prisoner on June 14,1864. Died of yellow fever on October 14, 1864, while a prisoner of war at a camp on the grounds of the Washington Race Course in Charleston, South Carolina. Buried in a mass grave there behind the bandstand. He was later reinterred, along with 256 other soldiers, by freed black workmen, and placed into an individual grave there in "Union Cemetery", where a sign above the archway entrance read "Martyrs of the Racetrack". Later, in the 1880's, the 257 men were again reinterred at the National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Please read "The First Decoration Day" by David W. Blight for a more complete account from which a portion of this bio was taken. The article may be found at: http://www.davidwblight.com/memorial.htm
Sources: " Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861 -1865, vol. 4", also known as the "Brown Book" and personal research from the soldier's Compiled Military Service Records and Pension Application file from the National Archives.
For Further Information See:
Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry 1861-1866
4th Michigan Infantry
http://www.4thmichigan.wordpress.com
Please read "The First Decoration Day" by David W. Blight for a more complete account from which a portion of this bio was taken. The article may be found at: http://www.davidwblight.com/memorial.htm
Sources: " Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861 -1865, vol. 4", also known as the "Brown Book" and personal research from the soldier's Compiled Military Service Records and Pension Application file from the National Archives.
For Further Information See:
Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry 1861-1866
4th Michigan Infantry
http://www.4thmichigan.wordpress.com
Enlisted in Company B of the Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry on June 20,1861, for 3 years. Taken prisoner at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 2,1863. Returned to his company on August 12, 1863. Re-enlisted on December 29,1863. On detached service with Company B of the the First Michigan Infantry, by order, July 2,1864 at Petersburg, Virginia. Taken prisoner on June 14,1864. Died of yellow fever on October 14, 1864, while a prisoner of war at a camp on the grounds of the Washington Race Course in Charleston, South Carolina. Buried in a mass grave there behind the bandstand. He was later reinterred, along with 256 other soldiers, by freed black workmen, and placed into an individual grave there in "Union Cemetery", where a sign above the archway entrance read "Martyrs of the Racetrack". Later, in the 1880's, the 257 men were again reinterred at the National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Please read "The First Decoration Day" by David W. Blight for a more complete account from which a portion of this bio was taken. The article may be found at: http://www.davidwblight.com/memorial.htm
Sources: " Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861 -1865, vol. 4", also known as the "Brown Book" and personal research from the soldier's Compiled Military Service Records and Pension Application file from the National Archives.
For Further Information See:
Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry 1861-1866
4th Michigan Infantry
http://www.4thmichigan.wordpress.com
Please read "The First Decoration Day" by David W. Blight for a more complete account from which a portion of this bio was taken. The article may be found at: http://www.davidwblight.com/memorial.htm
Sources: " Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861 -1865, vol. 4", also known as the "Brown Book" and personal research from the soldier's Compiled Military Service Records and Pension Application file from the National Archives.
For Further Information See:
Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry 1861-1866
4th Michigan Infantry
http://www.4thmichigan.wordpress.com
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