Lewis Tatro, Jr. (Louis Tetrault) Served in Co. F 11th Vermont Infantry. Enlisted 12/7/1863 credited to Troy VT. Captured at the battle of the Weldon Railroad 6/23/1864. Paroled 2/24/65. Mustered out 8/5/65. Pension records reveal his imprisonment at Belle Island for four days, Libby Prison, Andersonville, Charleston, and Florence. After two month imprisonment he was tahen with chronic diarrhea. Ellery Webster recalled that Tatro was struck with a bayonet in the hands of a confederate soldier and of his suffering some inconvenience from a sore which resulted from the wound afterwards and In Forence (Dec 1864) he was suffering from general debility and that he was but a mere skeleton hardly able to walk and nearly dead from starvation and exposure. A "Louis Tatro" is listed as a "laborer" residing in Albany, Vermont, in the 1883-84 Business Directory. As Louis Tetrault, Jr. he who died 1/10/97 of "asthma" at Manchester, New Hampshire. The death certificate reveals he worked as a mason and was interred in the Mount Calvary Cemetery at Manchester. Granted an invalid pension in 1877. In In her 1900 affidavit for a widow's pension Rose Tatro stated in August in 1889…my husband Lewis Tatro, Jr….turned me out of doors and I was compelled on account of my poverty to go to my folks in Vt…He drank heavily, he was a drunkard, disipated (sic) man and very ugly. Not to be confused with Louis Tatro Co. B 11th Vermont Infantry captured 6/15/64 at Cold Harbor who died at Andersonville 9/8/64 where he is listed as #8119 L. Tatro Co. B 11th Virginia. Or, the Louis Tatro of Co. A 7th Vermont Infantry who died in 1913 and is buried in the Mount Calvary Cemetery at Burlington.
Lewis Tatro, Jr. (Louis Tetrault) Served in Co. F 11th Vermont Infantry. Enlisted 12/7/1863 credited to Troy VT. Captured at the battle of the Weldon Railroad 6/23/1864. Paroled 2/24/65. Mustered out 8/5/65. Pension records reveal his imprisonment at Belle Island for four days, Libby Prison, Andersonville, Charleston, and Florence. After two month imprisonment he was tahen with chronic diarrhea. Ellery Webster recalled that Tatro was struck with a bayonet in the hands of a confederate soldier and of his suffering some inconvenience from a sore which resulted from the wound afterwards and In Forence (Dec 1864) he was suffering from general debility and that he was but a mere skeleton hardly able to walk and nearly dead from starvation and exposure. A "Louis Tatro" is listed as a "laborer" residing in Albany, Vermont, in the 1883-84 Business Directory. As Louis Tetrault, Jr. he who died 1/10/97 of "asthma" at Manchester, New Hampshire. The death certificate reveals he worked as a mason and was interred in the Mount Calvary Cemetery at Manchester. Granted an invalid pension in 1877. In In her 1900 affidavit for a widow's pension Rose Tatro stated in August in 1889…my husband Lewis Tatro, Jr….turned me out of doors and I was compelled on account of my poverty to go to my folks in Vt…He drank heavily, he was a drunkard, disipated (sic) man and very ugly. Not to be confused with Louis Tatro Co. B 11th Vermont Infantry captured 6/15/64 at Cold Harbor who died at Andersonville 9/8/64 where he is listed as #8119 L. Tatro Co. B 11th Virginia. Or, the Louis Tatro of Co. A 7th Vermont Infantry who died in 1913 and is buried in the Mount Calvary Cemetery at Burlington.
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