Gustavus Kann

Giving his age as 18, he enlisted at Woodville, MS on 21 April 1861 and mustered on 27 May 1861 as a Private in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry in Corinth, MS.

He was wounded in the foot in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was in hospitals or home on furlough to about March 1863, then back with his Company. He was wounded again, slightly, by a gunshot to his head in May 1864, but returned to duty by the end of the month. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal by June 1864 and mortally wounded on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864 and died at a field hospital, date not given.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound is on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Gabriel Kann (1843-1922) also enlisted in Company K in April 1861, but was detailed as a musician to the regimental band for most of the war. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House in 1865.

02/20/1844; Woodville, MS

08/23/1864; Petersburg, VA; burial in Hebrew Cemetery, Richmond, VA