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N. Heber
(1837 - 1884)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
He came to America in 1857 and lived in Dubuque County, IA until he enlisted in 1861. He mustered as a Corporal in Company H, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 29 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863. He was appointed First Sergeant, date not given, commissioned First Lieutenant on 22 October 1864, and promoted to Captain on 13 December 1864. He mustered out in Madison, WI on 3 July 1865.
After the War
He was farming in Dubuque, IA in June 1870, but went to Goodhue County, MN later that year, and by 1878 was a merchant in Lake City, MN. In 1880 he was a farmer and saloon keeper in Belvidere.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of Wisconsin,1 as Nicholas Heber. Personal details and his wounding on South Mountain from a bio sketch in History of Goodhue County (1878), with more from family genealogists, as Nicolaus Heber, and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph of unknown provenance hosted by fold3.
He married Anna Majerus (later Heppelmann; 1847-1928) in August 1866 and they had 5 children.
Birth
11/14/1837; Mamer, LUXEMBOURG
Death
06/1884; Belvidere Mills, MN; burial in Saint Marys Cemetery, Bellechester, MN
1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, p. 565 [AotW citation 31229]