Enlisted in the Army of the Potomac at 16 and fought at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Lost his backpack, including his German Bible at Chancellorsville. Found by a Confederate soldier, his family turned it over to a Lutheran minister who managed to track him down an return it when he was 74 years old.
Enlisted in the Army of the Potomac at 16 and fought at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Lost his backpack, including his German Bible at Chancellorsville. Found by a Confederate soldier, his family turned it over to a Lutheran minister who managed to track him down an return it when he was 74 years old.
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