Name: Belteshazzar Dragoo
Enlistment Date: 13 Sep 1861
Enlistment Rank: Private
Muster Date: 13 Sep 1861
Muster Place: Indiana
Muster Regiment: Company F, Indiana Infantry
Muster Information: Enlisted
Date Of Death: 25 May 1864
Place of Death: North Anna River, Virginia
Cause of Death: Killed in Action
Side of War: Union
Survived War? No
Residence Place: Johnson County, Indiana
Burial Place: Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Virginia
Cemetery Plot Number sec A; #192

His brother John Nelson Dragoo
was by his side when he died.
His brother John helped to bury him
on the Mathews farm on the South bank
of the North Anna River
(per: John's letter home to his parents).
Belteshazzar was later moved to the
Fredericksburg National Cemetery
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Belteshazzar was married to
Amelia Henderson, on Sept. 21, 1854,
in Johnson County Indiana.

Belteshazzar's grandfather,
Belteshazzar Dragoo Jr. came
from Ohio to Johnson County Indiana,
and purchased a land patent from the
U.S. Government in 1825. Over 100 years
later, after four generations of the
Dragoo family had lived on this
farm, the U. S. Government forced his
Great grandson Albert Dragoo, to give
up this farm, to build a U. S. Army
Camp named Camp Atterbury, in 1942

Note: The Indiana State Library,
in Indianapolis, Indiana, has
in their "Manuscript and Rare
Books Division" 3 folders containing
photo-copies of numerous letters which
Belteshazzar (who signed his letters
as "B. S." Dragoo),
and his brother
John Nelson Dragoo, wrote home
to their parents and siblings,
during the Civil War.
(And also other misc.).
(Most of the letters are in
folder number one).
Belteshazzar signed these letters
as "B. S." Dragoo.
In the letters written by his brother
John Nelson Dragoo, John refers to
him as "Belt" Dragoo.
This file containing three folders
is titled:
ILS - John Dragoo,
S 374
1861-1929
(Three folders).