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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John Spies

(1836 - 1914)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 23 year old farm laborer at Oak Creek near Milwaukee, WI. He enlisted in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry on 25 April 1861 and was appointed Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He was captured while serving in the Quartermaster's Department 9 March 1865. He mustered out of service with his Company on 18 July 1865.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farmer in Marquette County, WI but in 1880 was farming in Henry County, MO. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in 1881, and 1900 he was a farmer in Cedar County, MO.

References & notes

His service from Bryant,1 with wound detail from a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote to Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900 and his US pension index card. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

08/29/1836; Hesse, GERMANY

Death

12/25/1914; Eldorado Springs, MO; burial in Lebeck Cemetery, Cedar County, MO

Notes

1 Bryant, Edwin Eustace, History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Madison: Arthur H Clark Co. for the Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891, pp. 318, 419 - 421 [AotW citation 15226]

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