Son of Johanna F. Juliane Christiane Lippisch and Johann Samuel Goffried Kaempfe, both from Saxony, Germany. Samuel Jr. was born in Kleinpestitz, near Dresden, Germany, and he was a baby when he came with his parents as they traveled with a group of religious emigrants called the Stephanites from Bremen on the Johann Georg and arrived in New Orleans on Jan. 7, 1839. The group went by steamship to St. Louis and later to the area of Altenburg, Wittenburg and Frohna where they bought up the property in a communal effort. The book "Zion on the Mississippi" by Walter O. Forster details the entire history of the group. This group was the core for founding the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
While in Altenburg Samuel and Juliane had three more children: Traugott Gothilff, Ernst Lebenrecht and Carl August. Ernst died as a baby in Altenburg, but Traugott, Carl and older brother Samuel Jr. traveled with their parents when they moved to St. Louis, MO and then Millstadt, IL around 1844. Samuel and Juliane retained ownership of the farm near Altenburg that they acquired in the dissolution of the Stephanite property, but they bought another farm in Millstadt and became members of Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Louis, MO. Toddler Carl died in St. Louis in April, 1844. Juliane bore 3 more children who all died as babies: Christiane Ferdinand, Gottlieb Daniel, and Pauline Elisabeth. Juliane died on July 23, 1848, leaving Samuel with 2 living children and 5 deceased children. Her burial site is unknown but may be in the old City Cemetery in St. Louis where baby Carl August was buried.
In 1850 Samuel remarried, to a widow named Christiana (Mueller) Moos who was also widowed, with 3 children from her first marriage.
Samuel Jr. died in New Bern, North Carolina at age 26 during the Civil War. There was active recruiting of enlistees for the Union in St. Clair County, IL, where he was raised and living at the time of the Civil War. In fact, about 4.400 from St. Clair served in the Union at one time or another. They were organized into various regiments and sent off to fight wherever needed. Most served a 3 year stint, concentrating in Tennessee, and then moved into Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Samuel was a private in the 20th Illinois Regiment, Company E.
At the time that Samuel Jr. died, General Sherman had already torched Atlanta and gone through Savanna. His troops had burned Columbia, South Carolina in February, 1865. Union forces had a stronghold at New Berne which they had captured in 1862 and had held during the entire war. The Battle of Wyse Fork involved troops stationed at New Berne who left there to go capture Goldsboro. A battle took place March 7-10, 1865, and there were 1,101 Union casualties. There's a good chance he was wounded, taken back to New Berne and died there on March 15. There were other battles at the time, all over the area, and it was called the Campaign of the Carolinas, but the biggest one occurred on March 19-21, and this Samuel Kaempfe Jr. was already dead.
The Military Records for Samuel Kaempfe Jr. provide a lot of information about him and his short, tragic military career. He had been born in Germany and was only 26 years old in 1864. A single man, he stood 5 ft. 6 inches tall, and had gray eyes and brown hair. Coming from a farming family in St. Clair County, Illinois, and working as a laborer in Alton, Illinois, most likely produced his dark complexion. On September 21, 1864, he either enlisted or was drafted into the Union Army. By October he was a Private located in Joliet, Ill, assigned to Milliken's New Company with Company E, 20th Regiment Illinois Infantry. In November he was in Chattanoga, Tennessee, and was admitted to the hospital there for almost a whole month. In January, 1865, he was temporarily attached to the 132nd N.Y. Infantry. On March 8, he was fighting at Wises Cross Roads, N.C. when he received a gun shot wound to his chest which penetrated his lungs. It took two days to get him to Foster General Hospital and another five before he died on March 15, at 2:30 in the afternoon. He was buried the next day in the clothes he was wearing in the New Cemetery in New Berne, N.C., with the usual military honors. He had never been paid but had an outstanding debt for the cost of his uniform for $39.31. A final accounting shows a figure of $4.35, but it's unclear if this was paid to his estate or if it was owed by him and paid by his estate. He had served his country less than six months, was wounded twice and died fighting, and the last thing our government thought about was the money.
His Military Records kept by the National Archives include five Muster cards with descriptive information about him while in the 20th Regiment Illinois Infantry , Company E (Union); two pages of hospital records; one card for Inventory of the Effects; two pages for Record of Death and Internment; and three cards with Notations for the Adjutant General's Office. All records have various spellings of his last name.
First established on February 1, 1867, New Bern National Cemetery was initially used to re-inter remains from the numerous battlefield cemeteries around the area, including nearly 1,000 unknown soldiers and the remains of Union soldiers who died at the Battle of New Bern. Samuel Jr's. grave is somewhere among those unmarked graves and has not been found.
While in Altenburg Samuel and Juliane had three more children: Traugott Gothilff, Ernst Lebenrecht and Carl August. Ernst died as a baby in Altenburg, but Traugott, Carl and older brother Samuel Jr. traveled with their parents when they moved to St. Louis, MO and then Millstadt, IL around 1844. Samuel and Juliane retained ownership of the farm near Altenburg that they acquired in the dissolution of the Stephanite property, but they bought another farm in Millstadt and became members of Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Louis, MO. Toddler Carl died in St. Louis in April, 1844. Juliane bore 3 more children who all died as babies: Christiane Ferdinand, Gottlieb Daniel, and Pauline Elisabeth. Juliane died on July 23, 1848, leaving Samuel with 2 living children and 5 deceased children. Her burial site is unknown but may be in the old City Cemetery in St. Louis where baby Carl August was buried.
In 1850 Samuel remarried, to a widow named Christiana (Mueller) Moos who was also widowed, with 3 children from her first marriage.
Samuel Jr. died in New Bern, North Carolina at age 26 during the Civil War. There was active recruiting of enlistees for the Union in St. Clair County, IL, where he was raised and living at the time of the Civil War. In fact, about 4.400 from St. Clair served in the Union at one time or another. They were organized into various regiments and sent off to fight wherever needed. Most served a 3 year stint, concentrating in Tennessee, and then moved into Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Samuel was a private in the 20th Illinois Regiment, Company E.
At the time that Samuel Jr. died, General Sherman had already torched Atlanta and gone through Savanna. His troops had burned Columbia, South Carolina in February, 1865. Union forces had a stronghold at New Berne which they had captured in 1862 and had held during the entire war. The Battle of Wyse Fork involved troops stationed at New Berne who left there to go capture Goldsboro. A battle took place March 7-10, 1865, and there were 1,101 Union casualties. There's a good chance he was wounded, taken back to New Berne and died there on March 15. There were other battles at the time, all over the area, and it was called the Campaign of the Carolinas, but the biggest one occurred on March 19-21, and this Samuel Kaempfe Jr. was already dead.
The Military Records for Samuel Kaempfe Jr. provide a lot of information about him and his short, tragic military career. He had been born in Germany and was only 26 years old in 1864. A single man, he stood 5 ft. 6 inches tall, and had gray eyes and brown hair. Coming from a farming family in St. Clair County, Illinois, and working as a laborer in Alton, Illinois, most likely produced his dark complexion. On September 21, 1864, he either enlisted or was drafted into the Union Army. By October he was a Private located in Joliet, Ill, assigned to Milliken's New Company with Company E, 20th Regiment Illinois Infantry. In November he was in Chattanoga, Tennessee, and was admitted to the hospital there for almost a whole month. In January, 1865, he was temporarily attached to the 132nd N.Y. Infantry. On March 8, he was fighting at Wises Cross Roads, N.C. when he received a gun shot wound to his chest which penetrated his lungs. It took two days to get him to Foster General Hospital and another five before he died on March 15, at 2:30 in the afternoon. He was buried the next day in the clothes he was wearing in the New Cemetery in New Berne, N.C., with the usual military honors. He had never been paid but had an outstanding debt for the cost of his uniform for $39.31. A final accounting shows a figure of $4.35, but it's unclear if this was paid to his estate or if it was owed by him and paid by his estate. He had served his country less than six months, was wounded twice and died fighting, and the last thing our government thought about was the money.
His Military Records kept by the National Archives include five Muster cards with descriptive information about him while in the 20th Regiment Illinois Infantry , Company E (Union); two pages of hospital records; one card for Inventory of the Effects; two pages for Record of Death and Internment; and three cards with Notations for the Adjutant General's Office. All records have various spellings of his last name.
First established on February 1, 1867, New Bern National Cemetery was initially used to re-inter remains from the numerous battlefield cemeteries around the area, including nearly 1,000 unknown soldiers and the remains of Union soldiers who died at the Battle of New Bern. Samuel Jr's. grave is somewhere among those unmarked graves and has not been found.
Son of Johanna F. Juliane Christiane Lippisch and Johann Samuel Goffried Kaempfe, both from Saxony, Germany. Samuel Jr. was born in Kleinpestitz, near Dresden, Germany, and he was a baby when he came with his parents as they traveled with a group of religious emigrants called the Stephanites from Bremen on the Johann Georg and arrived in New Orleans on Jan. 7, 1839. The group went by steamship to St. Louis and later to the area of Altenburg, Wittenburg and Frohna where they bought up the property in a communal effort. The book "Zion on the Mississippi" by Walter O. Forster details the entire history of the group. This group was the core for founding the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
While in Altenburg Samuel and Juliane had three more children: Traugott Gothilff, Ernst Lebenrecht and Carl August. Ernst died as a baby in Altenburg, but Traugott, Carl and older brother Samuel Jr. traveled with their parents when they moved to St. Louis, MO and then Millstadt, IL around 1844. Samuel and Juliane retained ownership of the farm near Altenburg that they acquired in the dissolution of the Stephanite property, but they bought another farm in Millstadt and became members of Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Louis, MO. Toddler Carl died in St. Louis in April, 1844. Juliane bore 3 more children who all died as babies: Christiane Ferdinand, Gottlieb Daniel, and Pauline Elisabeth. Juliane died on July 23, 1848, leaving Samuel with 2 living children and 5 deceased children. Her burial site is unknown but may be in the old City Cemetery in St. Louis where baby Carl August was buried.
In 1850 Samuel remarried, to a widow named Christiana (Mueller) Moos who was also widowed, with 3 children from her first marriage.
Samuel Jr. died in New Bern, North Carolina at age 26 during the Civil War. There was active recruiting of enlistees for the Union in St. Clair County, IL, where he was raised and living at the time of the Civil War. In fact, about 4.400 from St. Clair served in the Union at one time or another. They were organized into various regiments and sent off to fight wherever needed. Most served a 3 year stint, concentrating in Tennessee, and then moved into Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Samuel was a private in the 20th Illinois Regiment, Company E.
At the time that Samuel Jr. died, General Sherman had already torched Atlanta and gone through Savanna. His troops had burned Columbia, South Carolina in February, 1865. Union forces had a stronghold at New Berne which they had captured in 1862 and had held during the entire war. The Battle of Wyse Fork involved troops stationed at New Berne who left there to go capture Goldsboro. A battle took place March 7-10, 1865, and there were 1,101 Union casualties. There's a good chance he was wounded, taken back to New Berne and died there on March 15. There were other battles at the time, all over the area, and it was called the Campaign of the Carolinas, but the biggest one occurred on March 19-21, and this Samuel Kaempfe Jr. was already dead.
The Military Records for Samuel Kaempfe Jr. provide a lot of information about him and his short, tragic military career. He had been born in Germany and was only 26 years old in 1864. A single man, he stood 5 ft. 6 inches tall, and had gray eyes and brown hair. Coming from a farming family in St. Clair County, Illinois, and working as a laborer in Alton, Illinois, most likely produced his dark complexion. On September 21, 1864, he either enlisted or was drafted into the Union Army. By October he was a Private located in Joliet, Ill, assigned to Milliken's New Company with Company E, 20th Regiment Illinois Infantry. In November he was in Chattanoga, Tennessee, and was admitted to the hospital there for almost a whole month. In January, 1865, he was temporarily attached to the 132nd N.Y. Infantry. On March 8, he was fighting at Wises Cross Roads, N.C. when he received a gun shot wound to his chest which penetrated his lungs. It took two days to get him to Foster General Hospital and another five before he died on March 15, at 2:30 in the afternoon. He was buried the next day in the clothes he was wearing in the New Cemetery in New Berne, N.C., with the usual military honors. He had never been paid but had an outstanding debt for the cost of his uniform for $39.31. A final accounting shows a figure of $4.35, but it's unclear if this was paid to his estate or if it was owed by him and paid by his estate. He had served his country less than six months, was wounded twice and died fighting, and the last thing our government thought about was the money.
His Military Records kept by the National Archives include five Muster cards with descriptive information about him while in the 20th Regiment Illinois Infantry , Company E (Union); two pages of hospital records; one card for Inventory of the Effects; two pages for Record of Death and Internment; and three cards with Notations for the Adjutant General's Office. All records have various spellings of his last name.
First established on February 1, 1867, New Bern National Cemetery was initially used to re-inter remains from the numerous battlefield cemeteries around the area, including nearly 1,000 unknown soldiers and the remains of Union soldiers who died at the Battle of New Bern. Samuel Jr's. grave is somewhere among those unmarked graves and has not been found.
While in Altenburg Samuel and Juliane had three more children: Traugott Gothilff, Ernst Lebenrecht and Carl August. Ernst died as a baby in Altenburg, but Traugott, Carl and older brother Samuel Jr. traveled with their parents when they moved to St. Louis, MO and then Millstadt, IL around 1844. Samuel and Juliane retained ownership of the farm near Altenburg that they acquired in the dissolution of the Stephanite property, but they bought another farm in Millstadt and became members of Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Louis, MO. Toddler Carl died in St. Louis in April, 1844. Juliane bore 3 more children who all died as babies: Christiane Ferdinand, Gottlieb Daniel, and Pauline Elisabeth. Juliane died on July 23, 1848, leaving Samuel with 2 living children and 5 deceased children. Her burial site is unknown but may be in the old City Cemetery in St. Louis where baby Carl August was buried.
In 1850 Samuel remarried, to a widow named Christiana (Mueller) Moos who was also widowed, with 3 children from her first marriage.
Samuel Jr. died in New Bern, North Carolina at age 26 during the Civil War. There was active recruiting of enlistees for the Union in St. Clair County, IL, where he was raised and living at the time of the Civil War. In fact, about 4.400 from St. Clair served in the Union at one time or another. They were organized into various regiments and sent off to fight wherever needed. Most served a 3 year stint, concentrating in Tennessee, and then moved into Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Samuel was a private in the 20th Illinois Regiment, Company E.
At the time that Samuel Jr. died, General Sherman had already torched Atlanta and gone through Savanna. His troops had burned Columbia, South Carolina in February, 1865. Union forces had a stronghold at New Berne which they had captured in 1862 and had held during the entire war. The Battle of Wyse Fork involved troops stationed at New Berne who left there to go capture Goldsboro. A battle took place March 7-10, 1865, and there were 1,101 Union casualties. There's a good chance he was wounded, taken back to New Berne and died there on March 15. There were other battles at the time, all over the area, and it was called the Campaign of the Carolinas, but the biggest one occurred on March 19-21, and this Samuel Kaempfe Jr. was already dead.
The Military Records for Samuel Kaempfe Jr. provide a lot of information about him and his short, tragic military career. He had been born in Germany and was only 26 years old in 1864. A single man, he stood 5 ft. 6 inches tall, and had gray eyes and brown hair. Coming from a farming family in St. Clair County, Illinois, and working as a laborer in Alton, Illinois, most likely produced his dark complexion. On September 21, 1864, he either enlisted or was drafted into the Union Army. By October he was a Private located in Joliet, Ill, assigned to Milliken's New Company with Company E, 20th Regiment Illinois Infantry. In November he was in Chattanoga, Tennessee, and was admitted to the hospital there for almost a whole month. In January, 1865, he was temporarily attached to the 132nd N.Y. Infantry. On March 8, he was fighting at Wises Cross Roads, N.C. when he received a gun shot wound to his chest which penetrated his lungs. It took two days to get him to Foster General Hospital and another five before he died on March 15, at 2:30 in the afternoon. He was buried the next day in the clothes he was wearing in the New Cemetery in New Berne, N.C., with the usual military honors. He had never been paid but had an outstanding debt for the cost of his uniform for $39.31. A final accounting shows a figure of $4.35, but it's unclear if this was paid to his estate or if it was owed by him and paid by his estate. He had served his country less than six months, was wounded twice and died fighting, and the last thing our government thought about was the money.
His Military Records kept by the National Archives include five Muster cards with descriptive information about him while in the 20th Regiment Illinois Infantry , Company E (Union); two pages of hospital records; one card for Inventory of the Effects; two pages for Record of Death and Internment; and three cards with Notations for the Adjutant General's Office. All records have various spellings of his last name.
First established on February 1, 1867, New Bern National Cemetery was initially used to re-inter remains from the numerous battlefield cemeteries around the area, including nearly 1,000 unknown soldiers and the remains of Union soldiers who died at the Battle of New Bern. Samuel Jr's. grave is somewhere among those unmarked graves and has not been found.
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