I am working on a post on my ancestors in the Civil War. As I was working on it today, I just found another one that I had no idea about. John Hofstetter, who came to the United States from Switzerland, was my great-great grandfather, the closest ancestor to me who was in the war (joining a couple g-g-g grandfathers and great uncles) and he's also the one who was involved in the most big battles, including famous ones like Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg and more.
This is really exciting to me so I thought I would make a separate post about it. I have much more research to do, especially on his unit (which even has a monument at Gettysburg. I've attached a picture of it.) but this was a really cool find today. I will write more about this for sure.
Courtesy Gettysburgsentinals.com
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