SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

United States and Cuba 1898-1899

Page: 503

Soldier's Discharge Record

SOLDIER'S FORM

 

 

"Military Record"

#2946
Filed      June 5, 1931  at 9:30 p.m.

Bertha L. Stoops                        Recorder.

Reference No.  

 

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

 

              KNOW YE, That Frank J. Zapf, a Private of Company "L", of the Forty-ninth Regiment of Iowa Infantry Volunteers, who was enrolled on the twenty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, to serve two years or during the war, is hereby DISCHARGED from the service of the UNITED STATES, by reason of Muster out of the Regiment

 

*NO OBJECTION TO HIS REENLISTMENT IS KNOWN TO EXIST.

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The said Frank J. Zapf was born in Garnoulla , in the state of Iowa and when enrolled was 31 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, fair complexion, hazel eyes, brown hair, and by occupation a Laborer.

GIVEN at Savannah, Ga. this Thirteenth day of May, 1899
    Chester C. McCollorn
    Capt. 49th Iowa Infy. Vols.
    Commanding the Company

 

Countersigned,

John H. Parker

   

1st Lieut. 25th U. S. Infantry

   
  Mustering Officer  

 

* To be erased should there be anything in the conduct or physical condition of the soldier rendering him unfit for the Army.

 

MILITARY RECORD:

Noncommissioned Officer: No.  
Distinguished service: None.  
Battles, engagements, skirmishes, expeditions: Served in Spanish American War in United States and Cuba 1898-99.
Wounds received in service: None  
Remarks: Service Honest and Faithful  

 

  Chester C. McCollorn
 

Captain 49th Iowa Infy. Vols.

 

Commanding Company "L"

Savannah, Ga.    
May 13, 1899    
Paid in full $128.07/100    
S. M. Well    
Maj. and Add'l Paym'r  U. S. V.    
 

 

~ source: Clayton County, Iowa Discharges. LDS microfilm #1516914 Item #6

~transcribed by Constance Diamond