Gottfried Becker

He was a veteran of the failed 'German Revolution' of 1848. He first fled to Switzerland the arrived in America in 1850. In 1860 he was in Chicago, Illinois. He was editor of Die Turn-Zeitung in Cincinnati.

He enrolled as Lieutenant Colonel of the 28th Ohio Infantry on 10 June 1861. In May 1862, the 28th Ohio was in West Virginia, where the unit joined General Cox's Kanawha Division. Colonel Augustus Moor was assigned to command the brigade, and, Lieutenant Colonel Becker became the acting commander of the Regiment - as he would be for the rest of the war.

He commanded the regiment in Maryland.

He resigned his commission on 24 September 1862, but was re-commissioned on 5 August 1863. He mustered out on 22 July 1864 at the end of his term of service.

In 1890 he was living in Cincinnati, OH.

His service from the Roster,1 as Godfried Becker. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War (1890), as Godfrey Becker, and the Biographical Dictionary of 1848ers. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Caroline Fix in February 1858.

1827; Frankenthal, Palatinate, GERMANY

1867; burial in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH