John J Beck

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U.S./C.S.	John J BECK	Biography
Iowa	Co. A, 13th Iowa Infantry	Sources

Enlisted	Enlisted April 12, 1862. Mustered April 12, 1862. Promoted Second Corporal. Wounded in neck July 21, 1864, Atlanta, Ga.
Discharged	Mustered out April 16, 1865, Raleigh, N. C, expiration of term of service.
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Biography :

Residence Dubuque. A Beck family was living in Dubuque at the time of the Civil War but not from Belgium. She originated from the Great Duchy and the father was born Redange. And a William Beck, age 22, in the Dubuque 1860 census, born Luxemburg, a bar keeper at Theodore Stemming saloon.

At Redange I also find a Jean Guillaume Beck born December 7, 1835. That William Beck died November 12, 1901 in Dubuque ans is buried at the Mount Calvary Cemetery.

Note: in the 1870, a Nicolas Beck born October 5, 1833, Redange was also living with William Beck and his family.

Sources :
Find a grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=116176263

Pension:

Name of soldier	Beck John J
Dependant
Service	Pvt Co A 13 Regt Iowa Inf
Date of filing	Class	Application n�	Certificate	State filled
1879 July 2	Invalid	295564	186857
	Widow	680334	540804

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