Baptised: Anton Kapser, Gaars Am Inn Bavaria.
Immigrated: Baltimore 16 Aug. 1846, on Sir Isaac Newton with family.
Farmed in St Marys PA and St Joseph MN.
Enlisted Fort Snelling, 23 Oct. 1861, 4th MN Volunteers Company G.
Nov, 1861. Marched 300 miles to Fort Abercromby Dakota Territory. Wintered there. Marched back to Fort Snelling 18 Mar, 1862 in heavy snow.
20 Apr. 1862: rode steamboat, Sucker State to St Louis MO. Arrived 24 Apr. 1862, marched to FT Benton.
2 May 1862 boarded Steamboat John J. Roe. Arrived Fort Henry 6 May 1862. Did some patroling.
12 May 1862, Boarded steamboat Gladiator, delivering troups for attack on Corinth MS.
13 May 1862, Gladiator made hard landing at Brown's Landing, just South of Pittsburg Landing site of the earlier Shiloh battle. The upper 2 decks of the steamboat Gladiator collapsed. Anthony was pushed into the Tennessee River and drowned. His unit history says he died trying to hold his rifle out of the water to keep it dry.
There is no official account of his burial.
Family lore says he was buried on the bank of the Tennesse River. They also say his sister, Sr Gertrude, came down from her convent in Atchison KS and saw his grave, which was surrounded by a picket fence.
After the Civil War ended, bodies from the Shiloh battle, Hamburg Landing, Corinth, and other locations were re-interred in the Shiloh Cemetery. He is probably one of these. over 60% of them are unknown with a simple numbered marble block marker and no name. Sister Gertrude may have seen the beginnings of the Shiloh cemetery. Brown's Landing was at the end of a simple cleared path. There were no buildings there in 1862, and the area reverted to wilderness after the Civil War, Brown's landing is part of The Shiloh Battlefield National Park. The Park Service has some records on re-interments, but none for Brown's Landing, or for Anthony Capser.
Anthony'ss body is either in a grave marked unknown in Shiloh Cemetery, Still lying in the ground at Brown's Landing, or was washed away by the Tennessee River which is even today eroding it's banks near Brown's Landing.
We hope he is one of over 2000 unknown Union soldiers in Shiloh Cemetery.
Immigrated: Baltimore 16 Aug. 1846, on Sir Isaac Newton with family.
Farmed in St Marys PA and St Joseph MN.
Enlisted Fort Snelling, 23 Oct. 1861, 4th MN Volunteers Company G.
Nov, 1861. Marched 300 miles to Fort Abercromby Dakota Territory. Wintered there. Marched back to Fort Snelling 18 Mar, 1862 in heavy snow.
20 Apr. 1862: rode steamboat, Sucker State to St Louis MO. Arrived 24 Apr. 1862, marched to FT Benton.
2 May 1862 boarded Steamboat John J. Roe. Arrived Fort Henry 6 May 1862. Did some patroling.
12 May 1862, Boarded steamboat Gladiator, delivering troups for attack on Corinth MS.
13 May 1862, Gladiator made hard landing at Brown's Landing, just South of Pittsburg Landing site of the earlier Shiloh battle. The upper 2 decks of the steamboat Gladiator collapsed. Anthony was pushed into the Tennessee River and drowned. His unit history says he died trying to hold his rifle out of the water to keep it dry.
There is no official account of his burial.
Family lore says he was buried on the bank of the Tennesse River. They also say his sister, Sr Gertrude, came down from her convent in Atchison KS and saw his grave, which was surrounded by a picket fence.
After the Civil War ended, bodies from the Shiloh battle, Hamburg Landing, Corinth, and other locations were re-interred in the Shiloh Cemetery. He is probably one of these. over 60% of them are unknown with a simple numbered marble block marker and no name. Sister Gertrude may have seen the beginnings of the Shiloh cemetery. Brown's Landing was at the end of a simple cleared path. There were no buildings there in 1862, and the area reverted to wilderness after the Civil War, Brown's landing is part of The Shiloh Battlefield National Park. The Park Service has some records on re-interments, but none for Brown's Landing, or for Anthony Capser.
Anthony'ss body is either in a grave marked unknown in Shiloh Cemetery, Still lying in the ground at Brown's Landing, or was washed away by the Tennessee River which is even today eroding it's banks near Brown's Landing.
We hope he is one of over 2000 unknown Union soldiers in Shiloh Cemetery.
Baptised: Anton Kapser, Gaars Am Inn Bavaria.
Immigrated: Baltimore 16 Aug. 1846, on Sir Isaac Newton with family.
Farmed in St Marys PA and St Joseph MN.
Enlisted Fort Snelling, 23 Oct. 1861, 4th MN Volunteers Company G.
Nov, 1861. Marched 300 miles to Fort Abercromby Dakota Territory. Wintered there. Marched back to Fort Snelling 18 Mar, 1862 in heavy snow.
20 Apr. 1862: rode steamboat, Sucker State to St Louis MO. Arrived 24 Apr. 1862, marched to FT Benton.
2 May 1862 boarded Steamboat John J. Roe. Arrived Fort Henry 6 May 1862. Did some patroling.
12 May 1862, Boarded steamboat Gladiator, delivering troups for attack on Corinth MS.
13 May 1862, Gladiator made hard landing at Brown's Landing, just South of Pittsburg Landing site of the earlier Shiloh battle. The upper 2 decks of the steamboat Gladiator collapsed. Anthony was pushed into the Tennessee River and drowned. His unit history says he died trying to hold his rifle out of the water to keep it dry.
There is no official account of his burial.
Family lore says he was buried on the bank of the Tennesse River. They also say his sister, Sr Gertrude, came down from her convent in Atchison KS and saw his grave, which was surrounded by a picket fence.
After the Civil War ended, bodies from the Shiloh battle, Hamburg Landing, Corinth, and other locations were re-interred in the Shiloh Cemetery. He is probably one of these. over 60% of them are unknown with a simple numbered marble block marker and no name. Sister Gertrude may have seen the beginnings of the Shiloh cemetery. Brown's Landing was at the end of a simple cleared path. There were no buildings there in 1862, and the area reverted to wilderness after the Civil War, Brown's landing is part of The Shiloh Battlefield National Park. The Park Service has some records on re-interments, but none for Brown's Landing, or for Anthony Capser.
Anthony'ss body is either in a grave marked unknown in Shiloh Cemetery, Still lying in the ground at Brown's Landing, or was washed away by the Tennessee River which is even today eroding it's banks near Brown's Landing.
We hope he is one of over 2000 unknown Union soldiers in Shiloh Cemetery.
Immigrated: Baltimore 16 Aug. 1846, on Sir Isaac Newton with family.
Farmed in St Marys PA and St Joseph MN.
Enlisted Fort Snelling, 23 Oct. 1861, 4th MN Volunteers Company G.
Nov, 1861. Marched 300 miles to Fort Abercromby Dakota Territory. Wintered there. Marched back to Fort Snelling 18 Mar, 1862 in heavy snow.
20 Apr. 1862: rode steamboat, Sucker State to St Louis MO. Arrived 24 Apr. 1862, marched to FT Benton.
2 May 1862 boarded Steamboat John J. Roe. Arrived Fort Henry 6 May 1862. Did some patroling.
12 May 1862, Boarded steamboat Gladiator, delivering troups for attack on Corinth MS.
13 May 1862, Gladiator made hard landing at Brown's Landing, just South of Pittsburg Landing site of the earlier Shiloh battle. The upper 2 decks of the steamboat Gladiator collapsed. Anthony was pushed into the Tennessee River and drowned. His unit history says he died trying to hold his rifle out of the water to keep it dry.
There is no official account of his burial.
Family lore says he was buried on the bank of the Tennesse River. They also say his sister, Sr Gertrude, came down from her convent in Atchison KS and saw his grave, which was surrounded by a picket fence.
After the Civil War ended, bodies from the Shiloh battle, Hamburg Landing, Corinth, and other locations were re-interred in the Shiloh Cemetery. He is probably one of these. over 60% of them are unknown with a simple numbered marble block marker and no name. Sister Gertrude may have seen the beginnings of the Shiloh cemetery. Brown's Landing was at the end of a simple cleared path. There were no buildings there in 1862, and the area reverted to wilderness after the Civil War, Brown's landing is part of The Shiloh Battlefield National Park. The Park Service has some records on re-interments, but none for Brown's Landing, or for Anthony Capser.
Anthony'ss body is either in a grave marked unknown in Shiloh Cemetery, Still lying in the ground at Brown's Landing, or was washed away by the Tennessee River which is even today eroding it's banks near Brown's Landing.
We hope he is one of over 2000 unknown Union soldiers in Shiloh Cemetery.
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