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Federal (USV)

Private

Johann Adam Zuspann, Jr.

(1838 - 1902)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

He came to America with his family in 1849 and in 1860, going by Adam, was a 22 year old living with printer John Trochlick and family at Evansville in Vanderburgh County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company E, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his company in Indianapolis on 16 June 1864.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a drayman (wagon driver/hauler) in Evansville, IN.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as Adam Zusspan. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Bavarian-born Susanna Danter (1844-1917) in December 1865 and they had 6 children.

Birth

09/02/1838; Bavaria, GERMANY

Death

03/07/1902; Evansville, IN; burial in Locust Hill Cemetery, Evansville, IN

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 281 [AotW citation 33371]

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