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Federal (USV)

Private

Louis Betz

(1835 - 1892)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 26, he enlisted and mustered on 23 April 1861 as a Private in Company B, 7th New York Infantry in New York City.

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 on 8 May 1863.

After the War

He began receiving an invalid veteran's pension in December 1870 and died at about age 56 of tuberculosis in Manhattan in 1892.

References & notes

Service information from the State of New York.1 Personal details from family genealogists and his bio sketch from Green-Wood. Thanks to Tom Nardo for the pointer to his gravesite on Findagrave; his modern stone has his birth in 1836.

He married Elisabeth Amman/Ammon (1843-) in March 1864 and they had 7 children.

Birth

02/18/1835; Coburg, Bavaria, GERMANY

Death

10/01/1892; Manhattan, NY; burial in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY

Notes

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 18 (for 1899), pp. 112 - 162 [AotW citation 7591]

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