Thursday, February 14, 2013

Civil War Veteran: Abraham Van Winkle

Abraham Van Winkle
Born:  Abt. 1834 or 1835 in Illinois
Died:  September 14, 1914 in Hemet, Riverside County, California
PVT CO B 91 ILL INF

Enlisted July 8, 1862 as a PVT in CO B 91 ILL INF and mustered out April 13, 1863.
While at Bethany, Missouri he suffered a gunshot wound to his left shoulder and was in prison for 15 days.

He spent the last seventeen years of his life in California, the last thirteen in Hemet and the vicinity.

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