Thank you to FAG Member #48274079 for providing the following information:
HAUSER, Ferdinand; enlisted: February 17, 1865, New York, New York, by Capt. Paulding; born: Wurtemberg [Wurttemberg], Germany; age: 19 yrs; occupation: laborer; blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion, 5'5½"; Company C, 2d Cavalry.
U.S., Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914, year range 1864-1865, section A-K, page 503 of 636.∼Pvt.; "C" Co., 2nd U.S. Cav.
Final Statement
I Certify That Ferdinand Houser of Captain Wesley Merritt's Company "C" of the Second Regiment of U.S. Cavalry, born in Wurtemburg in the state of Germany aged 19 years, 5 feet 5½ inches high, Fair complexion, Blue eyes, Brown hair, and by profession a Laborer, was enlisted by Capt Paulding at New York on the Seventeenth day of February, eighteen hundred and Sixty five, to serve for 3 years, and is now entitled to discharge by reason of Killed in action at Peno Creek near Fort Phil Kearney D. T. December 21, 1866.
When the remains from Fort Phil Kearney arrived in 1905 at Custer Battlefield National Cemetery for reburial the cemetery register listed 97 "Unknown US Soldiers," and 9 named. Fernand Houser is most likely one of the unknown reburials.
Thank you to FAG Member #48274079 for providing the following information:
HAUSER, Ferdinand; enlisted: February 17, 1865, New York, New York, by Capt. Paulding; born: Wurtemberg [Wurttemberg], Germany; age: 19 yrs; occupation: laborer; blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion, 5'5½"; Company C, 2d Cavalry.
U.S., Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914, year range 1864-1865, section A-K, page 503 of 636.∼Pvt.; "C" Co., 2nd U.S. Cav.
Final Statement
I Certify That Ferdinand Houser of Captain Wesley Merritt's Company "C" of the Second Regiment of U.S. Cavalry, born in Wurtemburg in the state of Germany aged 19 years, 5 feet 5½ inches high, Fair complexion, Blue eyes, Brown hair, and by profession a Laborer, was enlisted by Capt Paulding at New York on the Seventeenth day of February, eighteen hundred and Sixty five, to serve for 3 years, and is now entitled to discharge by reason of Killed in action at Peno Creek near Fort Phil Kearney D. T. December 21, 1866.
When the remains from Fort Phil Kearney arrived in 1905 at Custer Battlefield National Cemetery for reburial the cemetery register listed 97 "Unknown US Soldiers," and 9 named. Fernand Houser is most likely one of the unknown reburials.
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