Union Civil War soldier: Private of Capt. E. B. Shafer's Company E 21st Reg't Infantry Missouri Volunteers.
On 29 Feb 1864 in Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri he enlisted with Company E 21st Reg't Infantry Missouri Volunteers [Union] initially at the age of 25 to serve for three years.
On a Company Muster Roll it stated he was sick with smallpox since October 1, 1864 at Jefferson Barracks, MO.
Levi died soon after returning home on furlough. He was sent home to convalesce.
His discharge paper dated 24 Jan. 1865 lists he was honorably discharged from the Union Army the date of his death, 28 Nov. 1864. He had pay due him at the time.
There once was a letter that existed written by Levi to his Aunt Sarah M. Noblitt from a camp near LaGrange, Tenn. dated 2 July 1864.
He talked about being on a railroad about 45 miles east of Memphis and that the next day had marching orders to travel eight miles to fix a RR bridge.
He talked about how the weather is so hot that a soldier can't march far and told how there were, "six men sunstruck and died several were sunstruck and got over it. You may think it is hot weather up there (MO) but I never saw such hot weather there. Such a day as last Fourth of July is cool weather here. I expect that you are fixing to have a celebration on the Fourth. I hope that you will have a good time and will enjoy yourselves. Well, I can't tell what we will be doing on the Fourth but I expect that we will spend the day in marching or laying in camp, or it may be that we will be fighting the Rebs- we can't tell what until the day comes. We don't know one day what we will do the next..."
In Nov. 18,1865 his brother, Francis Robert, whom enlisted in the same unit same date as Levi, contracted smallpox and was hospitalized in Mobile Alabama. He survived.
Union Civil War soldier: Private of Capt. E. B. Shafer's Company E 21st Reg't Infantry Missouri Volunteers.
On 29 Feb 1864 in Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri he enlisted with Company E 21st Reg't Infantry Missouri Volunteers [Union] initially at the age of 25 to serve for three years.
On a Company Muster Roll it stated he was sick with smallpox since October 1, 1864 at Jefferson Barracks, MO.
Levi died soon after returning home on furlough. He was sent home to convalesce.
His discharge paper dated 24 Jan. 1865 lists he was honorably discharged from the Union Army the date of his death, 28 Nov. 1864. He had pay due him at the time.
There once was a letter that existed written by Levi to his Aunt Sarah M. Noblitt from a camp near LaGrange, Tenn. dated 2 July 1864.
He talked about being on a railroad about 45 miles east of Memphis and that the next day had marching orders to travel eight miles to fix a RR bridge.
He talked about how the weather is so hot that a soldier can't march far and told how there were, "six men sunstruck and died several were sunstruck and got over it. You may think it is hot weather up there (MO) but I never saw such hot weather there. Such a day as last Fourth of July is cool weather here. I expect that you are fixing to have a celebration on the Fourth. I hope that you will have a good time and will enjoy yourselves. Well, I can't tell what we will be doing on the Fourth but I expect that we will spend the day in marching or laying in camp, or it may be that we will be fighting the Rebs- we can't tell what until the day comes. We don't know one day what we will do the next..."
In Nov. 18,1865 his brother, Francis Robert, whom enlisted in the same unit same date as Levi, contracted smallpox and was hospitalized in Mobile Alabama. He survived.
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Francis Robert "Bob" Bledsoe
1839–1922
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Sarah Miriam Bledsoe Nelson
1841–1925
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Thomas Bledsoe
1842–1913
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Mary Serelda Bledsoe Beck
1850–1876
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Andrew Jackson Bledsoe Jr
1851–1925
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William Jasper Bledsoe
1855–1925
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Harriet L. "Hettie" Bledsoe
1862–1879
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Thomas Albert Bledsoe Sr
1864–1932
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Emma L. Bledsoe Gray
1868–1925
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