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"Gus"
(1835 - 1893)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 26 year old merchant, he enrolled in New York City and mustered as a Sergeant of Company D, 83rd New York (9th Militia) Infantry on 27 May 1861. He was appointed First Lieutenant on 17 January 1862 and promoted to Captain on 22 May.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right calf and a piece of shell to his left hip in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability from wounds on 12 December 1862.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a prosperous produce dealer in Brooklyn, NY.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York.1 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870 & 1880, and a bio sketch from the Green-Wood Cemetery. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Julia Berry Weld (1836-1905) and they had 2 daughters.
More on the Web
Go see Griff at Shared & Spared for two 1862 letters from Gus to Julia.
Birth
1835; Ewing, NJ
Death
1893; burial in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 30 (for 1901) [AotW citation 7410]