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Corporal
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Union service · Indiana
124th Indiana Infantry
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Company B
Private
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Company B
Private
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Company B
Private
William Martin was born in WV and moved to Indiana when he was 5. At 17 years and 10 months old (5/26/1864) he enlisted in Co B, 124th Indiana Infantry. He was immediately detailed to the Co A Surgeon as an orderly. He served in that capacity until he was mustered out on 8/31/1865 at Greensboro, NC.
He was disabled 6/15/1864 at Kennesaw Mountain, GA for rheumatism, piles, diarrhea, and a weak back.
After the war, he married, relocated to Iowa, North Texas, and eventually settled in Martha, Oklahoma. Out of eleven children, eight survived. His wife passed away when he was 58. At 59yo he remarried ( a woman 30 years his junior) and had a daughter. He outlived his second wife, too. He passed away when he was 89 from Gangrene. He did not want his leg removed for fear of becoming an invalid.
Company C
Private
Charles was 2nd Great grandfather , he was with the 124th Indiana C and D Company , he was captured at Spring Hill TN and was a pow at Cahabra AL. He was with his fellow soldiers freed and sent onward to Camp Chase in Ohio but during the trip on the S.S Sultana so how surivied the explosion.
Company D
Private
Buried in family cementary near Smith's Grove KY.
Company D
Corporal
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Company E
Rank unknown
Based on 'General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934' State filed Missouri.
Company E
Private
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Company E
Private
Died 20 September 1864 at Chattanooga TN (disease)
Company F
Captain
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Company F
Private
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Company G
Private
Robert enlisted as a volunteer but under the name of Robert Pain. He mustered in Dec 1863 likely in Richmond IN and was mustered out Aug 1865. Robert was from Ridgeville.
Company I
Private
Aaron was born in Marion, OH in 1839 and died from 'lung fever' in Hamilton Co., IN in 1868. Aaron left a widow, Catherine [O'Neil] [1834 Ire. - 1934 Indianapolis] and six children: James, Martha & Catherine [twins], David, John and Thomas. Aaron's brother John [1837-1907] served in the same company. Brother Sylvester [1835-1898] served with 79th and VRC.
Company I
Private
John, brother to Aaron, was born in Hamilton Co., OH in 1837 and died in Indianapolis, IN in 1907. Wife: Melissa Richardson.
Company I
Private
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Company I
Rank unknown
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Company K
Private
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