Enlisted on 4 July 1863 at Elbridge Township, Oceana County, Michigan; he was residing in Pentwater, Oceana County prior to his enlistment at 24 years of age; mustered in on 11 July 1863, Company K, Michigan 1st Sharpshooters Regiment as a Private; came down with an illness (erysipelas) that requried hospitalization on 16 May 1864 in L'Ouverture Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia ("Built in 1863, L'Ouverture opened in February 1864 for African American troops and contraband civilians and was outside the divisional structure of the other hospitals in Alexandria." -Alexandriava.gov); he died of this disease on 19 January 1865 in Alexandria, Virginia.
Enlisted on 4 July 1863 at Elbridge Township, Oceana County, Michigan; he was residing in Pentwater, Oceana County prior to his enlistment at 24 years of age; mustered in on 11 July 1863, Company K, Michigan 1st Sharpshooters Regiment as a Private; came down with an illness (erysipelas) that requried hospitalization on 16 May 1864 in L'Ouverture Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia ("Built in 1863, L'Ouverture opened in February 1864 for African American troops and contraband civilians and was outside the divisional structure of the other hospitals in Alexandria." -Alexandriava.gov); he died of this disease on 19 January 1865 in Alexandria, Virginia.
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