Enlisted Sept 15, 1861 in Company C, Twelfth Iowa Volunteer Infantry ('University Recruits').
Color bearer/color sergeant.
Captured at Shiloh (Hornets' Nest), held prisoner at Montgomery AL and Macon GA, paroled Oct 1862.
Re-enlisted as veteran volunteer Dec 25, 1863.
Honorably discharged Jan 20, 1866.
Accompanied parents to Iowa in 1860, settled at Fayette.
Attended Upper Iowa University.
Next to youngest of seven children.
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