Levi served as a 1st Lieutenant and Captain in the Civil War, Co. I, 4th Cavalry, and was severely wounded in a skirmish on June 3, 1863 at Clinton, LA. He died from the effects of his wounds at the Church Hospital in Baton Rouge on June 10, 1863. After his death, his brothers went for his body at the Baton Rouge National Cemetery and brought it back to Sparta, WI for burial. With her husband deceased, his mother, Mary Sanford Blake, declared for an army pension. She received $20.00/per month until her death in 1885.
Levi served as a 1st Lieutenant and Captain in the Civil War, Co. I, 4th Cavalry, and was severely wounded in a skirmish on June 3, 1863 at Clinton, LA. He died from the effects of his wounds at the Church Hospital in Baton Rouge on June 10, 1863. After his death, his brothers went for his body at the Baton Rouge National Cemetery and brought it back to Sparta, WI for burial. With her husband deceased, his mother, Mary Sanford Blake, declared for an army pension. She received $20.00/per month until her death in 1885.
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