Witzman, William, 1st US Artillery, Co. E, Private:
Application, Post 6 Book at the GAR Civil War Museum and Library, Obituary, Photograph, Account Book, Monument 1906:
Recommended for membership in Post 6 by John R. Waterhouse and elected 11 July 1889 at age 53, born in Baden, Germany, residence 174 Ashmead St., Germantown, occupation laborer, enlisted 17 March 1860, discharged 17 July 1867 at Philadelphia.
Obituary: Saturday, March 31, 1906: "The Germantown Guide":
DEATH OF WILLIAM WITZMAN.
William Witzman, a veteran of the Civil War and one of the last survivors of Fort Sumter, died suddenly on Monday at his home, 5232 Morris street, being taken sick in the night after having been at his work as usual in the Custom House during the day, heart trouble being the immediate cause of his death. The deceased was born in Germany seventy years ago and came to this country at the age of eighteen. After a few years spent in the vicinity of Boston, he went to Florida, and meeting with misfortune and a long, severe illness, he drifted to Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island, S. C., where he enlisted in Company E, First United States Artillery, in the latter part of 1859, in which company he served eight years, and was one of the garrison of 70 men at Fort Sumter when it was fired upon on April 12, 1861. A comrade, speaking of him, said, "Witzman was a good, brave soldier and a sterling man, and performed a daring act during the second day's light, at the time when we were expecting the fleet, which had hove in sight at the, mouth of the harbor, to come to our assistance; Witzman and another were ordered to lower and dip our flag three times for assistance, which they did, with the shot and shell flying around them continuously.". The last year of his service was as a messenger and orderly at general headquarters in Philadelphia, and after leaving the army he came to Germantown to live. In 1869 he married Miss Emma Henshaw, and is survived by seven of his eight children. He was a charter member of the Third Baptist Church.
Interment was in Ivy Hill Cemetery.
Application, Post 6 Book at the GAR Civil War Museum and Library, Obituary, Photograph, Account Book, Monument 1906:
Recommended for membership in Post 6 by John R. Waterhouse and elected 11 July 1889 at age 53, born in Baden, Germany, residence 174 Ashmead St., Germantown, occupation laborer, enlisted 17 March 1860, discharged 17 July 1867 at Philadelphia.
Obituary: Saturday, March 31, 1906: "The Germantown Guide":
DEATH OF WILLIAM WITZMAN.
William Witzman, a veteran of the Civil War and one of the last survivors of Fort Sumter, died suddenly on Monday at his home, 5232 Morris street, being taken sick in the night after having been at his work as usual in the Custom House during the day, heart trouble being the immediate cause of his death. The deceased was born in Germany seventy years ago and came to this country at the age of eighteen. After a few years spent in the vicinity of Boston, he went to Florida, and meeting with misfortune and a long, severe illness, he drifted to Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island, S. C., where he enlisted in Company E, First United States Artillery, in the latter part of 1859, in which company he served eight years, and was one of the garrison of 70 men at Fort Sumter when it was fired upon on April 12, 1861. A comrade, speaking of him, said, "Witzman was a good, brave soldier and a sterling man, and performed a daring act during the second day's light, at the time when we were expecting the fleet, which had hove in sight at the, mouth of the harbor, to come to our assistance; Witzman and another were ordered to lower and dip our flag three times for assistance, which they did, with the shot and shell flying around them continuously.". The last year of his service was as a messenger and orderly at general headquarters in Philadelphia, and after leaving the army he came to Germantown to live. In 1869 he married Miss Emma Henshaw, and is survived by seven of his eight children. He was a charter member of the Third Baptist Church.
Interment was in Ivy Hill Cemetery.
Witzman, William, 1st US Artillery, Co. E, Private:
Application, Post 6 Book at the GAR Civil War Museum and Library, Obituary, Photograph, Account Book, Monument 1906:
Recommended for membership in Post 6 by John R. Waterhouse and elected 11 July 1889 at age 53, born in Baden, Germany, residence 174 Ashmead St., Germantown, occupation laborer, enlisted 17 March 1860, discharged 17 July 1867 at Philadelphia.
Obituary: Saturday, March 31, 1906: "The Germantown Guide":
DEATH OF WILLIAM WITZMAN.
William Witzman, a veteran of the Civil War and one of the last survivors of Fort Sumter, died suddenly on Monday at his home, 5232 Morris street, being taken sick in the night after having been at his work as usual in the Custom House during the day, heart trouble being the immediate cause of his death. The deceased was born in Germany seventy years ago and came to this country at the age of eighteen. After a few years spent in the vicinity of Boston, he went to Florida, and meeting with misfortune and a long, severe illness, he drifted to Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island, S. C., where he enlisted in Company E, First United States Artillery, in the latter part of 1859, in which company he served eight years, and was one of the garrison of 70 men at Fort Sumter when it was fired upon on April 12, 1861. A comrade, speaking of him, said, "Witzman was a good, brave soldier and a sterling man, and performed a daring act during the second day's light, at the time when we were expecting the fleet, which had hove in sight at the, mouth of the harbor, to come to our assistance; Witzman and another were ordered to lower and dip our flag three times for assistance, which they did, with the shot and shell flying around them continuously.". The last year of his service was as a messenger and orderly at general headquarters in Philadelphia, and after leaving the army he came to Germantown to live. In 1869 he married Miss Emma Henshaw, and is survived by seven of his eight children. He was a charter member of the Third Baptist Church.
Interment was in Ivy Hill Cemetery.
Application, Post 6 Book at the GAR Civil War Museum and Library, Obituary, Photograph, Account Book, Monument 1906:
Recommended for membership in Post 6 by John R. Waterhouse and elected 11 July 1889 at age 53, born in Baden, Germany, residence 174 Ashmead St., Germantown, occupation laborer, enlisted 17 March 1860, discharged 17 July 1867 at Philadelphia.
Obituary: Saturday, March 31, 1906: "The Germantown Guide":
DEATH OF WILLIAM WITZMAN.
William Witzman, a veteran of the Civil War and one of the last survivors of Fort Sumter, died suddenly on Monday at his home, 5232 Morris street, being taken sick in the night after having been at his work as usual in the Custom House during the day, heart trouble being the immediate cause of his death. The deceased was born in Germany seventy years ago and came to this country at the age of eighteen. After a few years spent in the vicinity of Boston, he went to Florida, and meeting with misfortune and a long, severe illness, he drifted to Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island, S. C., where he enlisted in Company E, First United States Artillery, in the latter part of 1859, in which company he served eight years, and was one of the garrison of 70 men at Fort Sumter when it was fired upon on April 12, 1861. A comrade, speaking of him, said, "Witzman was a good, brave soldier and a sterling man, and performed a daring act during the second day's light, at the time when we were expecting the fleet, which had hove in sight at the, mouth of the harbor, to come to our assistance; Witzman and another were ordered to lower and dip our flag three times for assistance, which they did, with the shot and shell flying around them continuously.". The last year of his service was as a messenger and orderly at general headquarters in Philadelphia, and after leaving the army he came to Germantown to live. In 1869 he married Miss Emma Henshaw, and is survived by seven of his eight children. He was a charter member of the Third Baptist Church.
Interment was in Ivy Hill Cemetery.
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