SPREEN, HENRY C.

SPREEN, VOIGHT

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/17/2019 at 13:36:52

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

SPREEN, HENRY C, saloon; was born in Germany Sept. 13, 1843 when 15 years of age, he came to America in 1858, and lived in Pittsburgh, Penn., until the war broke out, when he enlisted as private in August, 1861, in the 77th Regiment Penn. V. I., Co. B, Army of the Cumberland ; he was in the battles of Shiloh, Stone River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, where his regiment was nearly all captured, also at, Lookout Mountain, in the Atlanta campaign, at Jonesboro, Franklin and Nashville; he was wounded in the battle of Stone River ; was promoted and commissioned Lieutenant, and received the Badge of Honor ; it is of gold; the triangle represents the 4th, the acorn, the 14th, and the star, the 20th, army corps ; after the war, returned to Pittsburgh ; he came to Iowa and located in Fort Madison in January, 1875. He married Miss Sophia Voight, a native of Germany, in September, 1867.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879