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- From Suzanne Prinz Ancestry site
if you are researching here, it is also of interest to you. A book source I discovered by googling waukegan milheiser is quoted below
Charles A. (Charles Addison) Partridge.
History of the Ninety-sixth Regiment, Illinois volunteer Infantry.
p.94
The ground all about Dover was strewn with the dead, and all of the houses were filled with the wounded. It is a fact that the Federals killed and wounded more of the enemy than it carried muskets, about 200 dead being buried by them, and several hundred wounded falling into their hands. The loss of the 83d Illinois was 13 killed and 51 wounded. The 13th Wisconsin, which had been stationed at Fort Henry, twelve miles distant, had marched over to Fort Donelson, and many of them were gathered near the landing to watch the boats as they arrived. Of a sudden there was a glad cry of joy from one of the boats, and Franc Milheiser, of Company C, was seen rushing to the shore, where he seized a sturdy soldier from the 13th, hugging him and manifesting every feeling of delight. Nor did the soldier seem averse to this unusual treatment, for, while less demonstrative, he was none the less pleased, and when Franc began the work of introducing him to the officers and his particular friends as "mein boy," all felt to rejoice with them at the pleasure afforded by this entirely unexpected meeting of father and son.
p. 750
Frank Milheiser - Age 46; born in Germany; laborer; enlisted from Waukegan. At Rocky Face Ridge, June 9,1864, was slightly wounded in arm; m. o. with Regiment. Residence in 1885, Appleton, Wis. Had two sons in other regiments.
p. 752
Frank Millheiser committed suicide at Appleton, Wisconsin, in August, 1886.
also had daughter;
-Elisabeth C. Milheiser 1849 - 1924 (married Garret Hayes d.1873. These were parents of I157159 Garret Hayes, and 2 other boys)
(she remarried, to William John Morrow b.1839 - and these 2 were parents of I133723 Rachel Morrow, and 3 others)
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1817 - 1886 (69 years)
Military Service
