Rudolf C Barnes Company F Enlisted 04/29/61 Discharged 05/05/64 Rank Private Wounds wounded Battle Wounded Antietam-hand Nativity unknown Born 01/01/36 Died 05/28/17 Died Where IL,Charleston Hometown Roscoe Vocation unknown

Rudolph Barnes served for three years in Company F of the First Minnesota. He was 24 when he was mustered into service on April 29, 1861. He was shot in the hand on Sept 17, 1862, at the Battle of Antietam. He was mustered out with the remnants of the unit on May 5, 1864.

The 1910 and 1917 rosters of the veterans of the First listed him as living in Charleston, Coles County, Illinois. Rudolph died there on May 28, 1917.

Sources:

The Goodhue County Republican, October 31, 1862.

Roster of the First Minnesota Infantry, 1910.

Roster of the Survivors, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 1917.