Valentine discharged January 1863 due to inability to see. Considered of no use to Battery. Doctor couldn't heal.
Captain Suttermeier stated cause due to dust of Alabama chasing Confederates in the summer of 1862.
Received invalid pension 1863.
Valentines' service:
Name: Valentine Seitz ,
Enlistment Date: 03 March 1862
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: Indiana
Unit Numbers: 661 661
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 03 March 1862
Enlisted in 11th Light Artillery Regiment Indiana on 03 March 1862.
Discharged 11th Light Artillery Regiment Indiana on 21 January 1863
Seitz
Fort Wayne Sentinel September 20 1900
THE BATTERY BOYS
Seventeenth Reunion of The Eleventh Indiana
Valentine Seitz died at Auburn Ind Jan 15 , of Dropsy
Burial Marker placed 2003 based on research and from no grave site to a given site.
His third wife Martha,who received a pension is buried Evergreen as a Kolbe ,widow of Valentine Kolbe , married Valentine Seitz 1891 DeKalb County IN
1. SEITZ, VALENTINE
PVT US ARMY
DATE OF BIRTH: 12/14/1829
DATE OF DEATH: 06/15/1900
BURIED AT:
EVERGREEN CEMETERY
AUBURN, IN 46706