46TH INFANTRYTEMPLETON, DAVID R. (Substitute for Luther Carter) --- Age, 18 yrs.Enlisted at Plattsburgh, to serve 1 yr, and mustered in as private, Co.A, Aug. 8, 1864; wounded in action, April 2, 1865, near Petersburg, VA;discharged for disability, May 30, 1865, at Washington, DC. TC EL \~res. Ellenburg; age 17, b. 1848, New York; W; S; p. Castle and H.Templeton; occ. laborer; discharged for disability; lost his left eye inaction; PO Ellenburg.LOST AN EYE FIGHTING AT PETERSBURG - Castle Templeton and his wifeAbigail Vanderbogart from Ellenburg had three sons in the Civil War.Their son, Castle, returned home after being discharged for disabilityin 1862 from the 1st Engineers. Another son, Peter, was supposedly inthe 69th Infantry and died in Ellenburg in January 1865 when he was18, although no records of his enlistment can be found. The third son,David Richard Templeton, was eighteen when he enlisted as a substitutefor Luther Carter in the 46th Infantry in August of 1864.David joined his regiment in Virginia and was in two engagements nearPetersburg before the end of the year. At the end of March 1865, he waspart of the MG John Parke's IX Corps at Fort Stedman. He was with thesame corps at the Fall of Petersburg on April 2nd and was shot in theeye and then discharged for disability on May 3, 1865, from HarewoodGeneral Hospital in Washington.David almost immediately went to Michigan and in 1869 married LauraAshman whose father, Jehudi, had brought his family from Champlain tosettle in Michigan. He supported his wife and six sons by farming andworking as a butcher. When he died of an abscess of the lung in 1902, hewas buried in the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw, MI, eventually to bejoined by many of his descendants. His wife joined him there in 1924.Luther Carter for whom David substituted died in 1902 in Ellenburg andwas taken to Plattsburgh to be buried.
