from Meyer book of 1896 (page 482)...

At the age of 14 he left home and seved as farm laborer. In 1862 he enlisted in the 15th Regiment New Jersey Volunteers for three years. In 1863 he was appointed Corporal. He was engaged in some of the severest battles in the Civil War including Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. In the great battle of Spottsylvania (C. H.), in which his regiment was nearly annihilated, he fall a martyr to his country's couase on May 12, 1864, from a bayonet wound in the mouth and a rifle ball which entered his right eye. "A brave and gallant soldier, and a true patriot."

1. Title: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Christian and Hans MEYER and Other Pioneers
   Author: Fretz, A. J.
   Publication: Harleysville, Pennsylvania: News Printing House. 1896.
   Note: full title: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Christian and Hans MEYER and Other Pioneers Together with Historical and Biographical Sketches, Illustrated with Eighty-seven Portraits and Other Illustrations
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   Page: page 482
2. Title: A Brief History of John Valentine KRATZ and a Complete Genealogical Family Register with Biographies of his Descendants
   Author: Fretz, A. J.
   Publication: Elkhart, Indiana: Mennonite Publishing Co., 1892.
   Note: full title: A Brief History of John Valentine Kratz, and a complete genealogical register with biographies of his descendants from the earliest available record to the present time. With portraits and other illustrations.
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