Lewis Alfred Giles
Lewis Alfred Giles was born around 1845 in Ohio to Lewis and Caroline Giles. His father was a painter who owned $100 of real estate and $900 of personal property by 1860. The family moved to Collins, New York, in the 1840s and then to Trempealeau, Wisconsin, in the 1850s.
 
He enlisted in the Union army on March 24, 1862, and he mustered in as a private in Company B of the 19th Wisconsin Infantry. The regiment took part in the siege of Suffolk. He died of inflammation of the brain in Fortress Monroe on August 21, 1863.
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(4291)Giles, Lewis Alfred18451863-08-21
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: Private
  • Rank highest: Private
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 1

  • (11873) [writer] ~ Lewis A. Giles to Phoebe Kribs, 11 August 1862

People - Records: 1

  • (4291) Giles, Lewis Alfred is the [friend of] (4284) Kribs, Charles Cramer

Places - Records: 2

  • (274) [birth] ~ Ohio
  • (260) [death] ~ Fortress Monroe, Virginia

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (1011) [enlisted] [B] ~ 19th Wisconsin Infantry
SOURCES

1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com