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"Fritz"
(c. 1839 - 1863)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
22 years old, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County, TX as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 4 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was at hospitals in Richmond, VA then on furlough in Texas from 6 October 1862 to 11 March 1863. There is no military record later than June 1863. He was killed in action at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863.
References & notes
Service information from Davis,1 as Fritz Glazier, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His death at Gettysburg from the Buseys.3 Personal details from family genealogists, one of whom has him as Frederick H. Glaeser. He's also seen as F.H. and Fred Glaser and Glazer.
His brother Julius Herman Glaser (1842-1912) was also in Company D, but not at Sharpsburg.
Birth
c. 1839; Rothenburg, Liegnitz, Silesia, PRUSSIA
Death
07/02/1863; Gettysburg, PA
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 154-155 [AotW citation 1732]
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 26638]
3 Busey, John W., and Travis W. Busey, Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Record, Jefferson (NC): McFarland & Company, 2017, pg. 1426 [AotW citation 26639]