Civil War: Company C, 1st Battalion, California Mountaineers
Johann Blumm was born "on the Rhine in Germany" about 1825 and came to California during the Gold Rush. During the Civil War he enlisted as a private at Hay Fork, Trinity County, on May 9, 1863, and was mustered into Captain Abraham Miller's Company C, 1st Battalion, California Mountaineers, at Fort Humboldt (Eureka) May 28. Private Blumm (also Blum) was described as a 38-year-old miner born in Germany, 5' 4" tall with a dark complexion and blue eyes. He was posted to Fort Anderson, Humboldt County, where he was severely wounded in action at Redwood Creek July 7, 1863. Private Blumm was taken to the post hospital at Fort Humboldt where he died of his wounds on July 31 and was buried in the post cemetery (Orton, 840, 872). In May 1893, the remains of the U.S. soldiers buried near the site of Fort Humboldt were relocated to the Grand Army of the Republic plot in the Myrtle Grove Cemetery in Eureka. Col. Whipple Post, No. 49, Grand Army of the Republic, obtained a headstone to place on his grave in the Myrtle Grove Cemetery, but misspelled his surname as B-L-U-M-E-R (The Humboldt Times, Vol. XLI, No. 132, Dec. 22, 1893; 4:3).
Johann Blumm was born "on the Rhine in Germany" about 1825 and came to California during the Gold Rush. During the Civil War he enlisted as a private at Hay Fork, Trinity County, on May 9, 1863, and was mustered into Captain Abraham Miller's Company C, 1st Battalion, California Mountaineers, at Fort Humboldt (Eureka) May 28. Private Blumm (also Blum) was described as a 38-year-old miner born in Germany, 5' 4" tall with a dark complexion and blue eyes. He was posted to Fort Anderson, Humboldt County, where he was severely wounded in action at Redwood Creek July 7, 1863. Private Blumm was taken to the post hospital at Fort Humboldt where he died of his wounds on July 31 and was buried in the post cemetery (Orton, 840, 872). In May 1893, the remains of the U.S. soldiers buried near the site of Fort Humboldt were relocated to the Grand Army of the Republic plot in the Myrtle Grove Cemetery in Eureka. Col. Whipple Post, No. 49, Grand Army of the Republic, obtained a headstone to place on his grave in the Myrtle Grove Cemetery, but misspelled his surname as B-L-U-M-E-R (The Humboldt Times, Vol. XLI, No. 132, Dec. 22, 1893; 4:3).
Civil War: Company C, 1st Battalion, California Mountaineers
Johann Blumm was born "on the Rhine in Germany" about 1825 and came to California during the Gold Rush. During the Civil War he enlisted as a private at Hay Fork, Trinity County, on May 9, 1863, and was mustered into Captain Abraham Miller's Company C, 1st Battalion, California Mountaineers, at Fort Humboldt (Eureka) May 28. Private Blumm (also Blum) was described as a 38-year-old miner born in Germany, 5' 4" tall with a dark complexion and blue eyes. He was posted to Fort Anderson, Humboldt County, where he was severely wounded in action at Redwood Creek July 7, 1863. Private Blumm was taken to the post hospital at Fort Humboldt where he died of his wounds on July 31 and was buried in the post cemetery (Orton, 840, 872). In May 1893, the remains of the U.S. soldiers buried near the site of Fort Humboldt were relocated to the Grand Army of the Republic plot in the Myrtle Grove Cemetery in Eureka. Col. Whipple Post, No. 49, Grand Army of the Republic, obtained a headstone to place on his grave in the Myrtle Grove Cemetery, but misspelled his surname as B-L-U-M-E-R (The Humboldt Times, Vol. XLI, No. 132, Dec. 22, 1893; 4:3).
Johann Blumm was born "on the Rhine in Germany" about 1825 and came to California during the Gold Rush. During the Civil War he enlisted as a private at Hay Fork, Trinity County, on May 9, 1863, and was mustered into Captain Abraham Miller's Company C, 1st Battalion, California Mountaineers, at Fort Humboldt (Eureka) May 28. Private Blumm (also Blum) was described as a 38-year-old miner born in Germany, 5' 4" tall with a dark complexion and blue eyes. He was posted to Fort Anderson, Humboldt County, where he was severely wounded in action at Redwood Creek July 7, 1863. Private Blumm was taken to the post hospital at Fort Humboldt where he died of his wounds on July 31 and was buried in the post cemetery (Orton, 840, 872). In May 1893, the remains of the U.S. soldiers buried near the site of Fort Humboldt were relocated to the Grand Army of the Republic plot in the Myrtle Grove Cemetery in Eureka. Col. Whipple Post, No. 49, Grand Army of the Republic, obtained a headstone to place on his grave in the Myrtle Grove Cemetery, but misspelled his surname as B-L-U-M-E-R (The Humboldt Times, Vol. XLI, No. 132, Dec. 22, 1893; 4:3).
Inscription
JNO. BLUMER (sic, BLUMM)
CO. G, 1st BATTN., CAL. MOUNTRS.
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