Civil War Veteran: John Casterline

John Casterline
Born:  1839 in New York
Died:  After April 1910
PVT CO A 4 MINN INF

He was living in Spring Lake (now called Prior Lake), Scott County, Minnesota at the time of his enlistment on April 17, 1862 as a PVT in CO A of the 4th MINN VOL INF.  He was mustered out on a disability discharge on September 22, 1862.
The son of Barnabas J. and Maria Elizabeth Casterline, he was a widower and living in San Luis Rey east of Oceanside, San Diego County, California at the time of the 1910 U.S. Census.

Civil War Veteran: Robert T. Baines

Robert T. Baines
Born:  April 10, 1843 in Texas
Died:  October 9, 1923 in San Diego County, California
SERGT CO I 2 ARK INF

Enlisted from Fort Smith, Arkansas as a PVT on December 31, 1863.
Mustered out with the rank of SERGT.

He was living in California by 1892 and in 1894 he was living in the Guejito area east of Escondido, San Diego County, where he was a Rancher.  In 1910 he was living in Valley Center, San Diego County, and was the Postmaster.