from The Republican (Danville, Indiana)--issue of Thursday, March 10, 1898--page 1, columns 3-4:
Republican candidates for county offices:
was born in Ohio in 1840 but has lived in this county thirty-nine years. He enlisted in the famous Eleventh regiment August 16th, 1861, and served three years. He was in all the principal battles of the regiment. He received two gunshot wounds at Champion Hill and lay on the battle field twenty-four days, the first eight days without anything to eat. On the ninth day he was taken prisoner and afterwards paroled and sent to the hospital at Memphis. He was exchanged in September 1863. His wounds not having healed, he was given a furlough home. Applying for service again he was found incapacitated and was detailed as clerk in the quartermaster's office at Madison, Ind. Here he served the balance of his time and when discharged was given letters of the highest commendation by the quartermaster. He graduated from a business college in Philadelphia but he returned to his first love, the farm, where he remained until a few years when he moved to Danville.