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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Ottokar Flusser

(1830 - 1862)

Home State: Kentucky

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 30 year old day laborer living with his mother in Louisville, KY. He enlisted as Second Sergeant of Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861 at Camp Clark, Guadalupe County.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and Polley,2 both as Oliver Flusser. His Compiled Service Records3 have him as O. Flusser. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY is on Findagrave.

His brother Lieutenant Commander Charles Williamson Flusser (1832-1864), a career US Navy officer and Academy graduate, was killed while in command of USS Miami in action against CSS Albemarle on 19 April 1864.

Another brother, Guy Flusser (1833-1864), was killed while Adjutant of the 4th Kentucky Cavalry, on a raid on Mount Sterling, KY under General J.H. Morgan on 8 June 1864.

Birth

06/28/1830; Louisville, KY

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1666]

2 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910 [AotW citation 26602]

3 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 26603]

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