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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Gustavus Leytze

(c. 1836 - ?)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Washington (LA) Artillery, 3rd Company

Before Sharpsburg

He was a 24 year old unmarried laborer when he enlisted on 24 October 1861 in New Orleans as a Driver, 3rd Company, Battalion of Washington Artillery.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action on 18 September 1862 at Sharpsburg but had been captured there.

The rest of the War

He signed a parole at Sharpsburg on 24 September 1862 and requested to not be returned by exchange; his parole permitted him to travel to "any of the loyal States" with no record of where he went. Confederate records for April 1863 say he was "supposed killed" and his family made a claim for his final pay.

References & notes

Service information from Booth1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1836 in PRUSSIA

Notes

1 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 3, Book 1, pg. 755 [AotW citation 14936]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 27776]

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