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Carlos GIRSCH |
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Co. G, 9th New York Cavalry |
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enlisted Oct. 11, 1861 at Sheldon; mustered in as Corporal Co. G Oct. 11, 1861 to serve 3 years; re-enlisted, Dec. 20, 1863 as private; appointed Sergeant, no date stated |
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mustered out with Company, July 17, 1865, at Cloud's Mills, Va. | |
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Carlos Girsch was admitted in the Soldiers' Home in Wisconsin in May 1878 at the age of 42, suffering from hemorrhoids, and stayed at the same place till his death in 1907, almost 30 years after. He stated being a farmer living in Wayne Michigan, married, with a child under 16 years of age and as near relative Susan Schreader, his sister living in Mazeppa, Chester Co., Minnesota.
The Girsch families from Belgium emigrated during the 1840 and settled in Sheldon, Wyoming Co, New York. There is a Charles Girsch, son of John Girsch, in the 1850 census of that place. After the war, the first place I found Carlos Girsch is in Iowa in 1870, 33 y.o., domestic servant to John L Gorker, clergyman, in Independance, Buchanan Co., Iowa.
Traces of him are few. At a unknown
date, he went to Minnesota, and was married. In the St Paul Minnesota directory
of 1877, he is listed as a boarder in the Cosmopolitan Hotel. An interesting
fact is that I find in the 1880 census an orphan, Peter Girsch, 13 y. o., born
Minnesota from Belgian parents, student at the St Francis Orphan Asylum at Lake,
Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin, near the Soldiers' Home. No other information except
one: Carlos Girsch died January 26, 1907, from morphine poisoning. He was buried
in the Home cemetery Block 16, n° 248.
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Northwestern Branch of the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin