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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Ecke

(c. 1835 - 1909)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Fountain City, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company H, 6th Wisconsin Infantry on 10 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the face in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862:

Gunshot fracture of nasal bone and extirpation [complete destruction] of left eye.

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company G, First Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps on 15 February 1864 and was discharged 18 July 1864 with a pension beginning 21 January 1864.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Buffalo County, WI. He was living in Elroy, WI in June 1905 according to a census of veterans made by the Secretary of State of Wisconsin.

References & notes

His service basics from the State of Wisconsin1 and his Pension Card, online from fold3. The quote above from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880.

Birth

c. 1835 in PRUSSIA

Death

02/01/1909; burial in Fountain City Cemetery, Fountain City, WI

Notes

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, pp. 525 - 528 [AotW citation 10410]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 335 [AotW citation 31381]

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