American Civil War Soldiers Record

Name: William Lein ,
Residence: Bridgeport, Connecticut
Enlistment Date: 19 August 1862
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: Connecticut
Unit Numbers: 87 87
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 19 August 1862
Enlisted in Company K, 17th Infantry Regiment Connecticut on 28 August 1862.
Wounded on 06 September 1863 at Fort Wagner, SC
Mustered out Company K, 17th Infantry Regiment Connecticut on 19 July 1865 in Hilton Head, SC

ORIGINAL CIVIL WAR PAPERS READ:
"To All who it may Concern:
Know ye, That William Lein a Private of Captain Theodore Grays Company (K) 17th Regiment of Connecticut Infantry VOLUNTEERS, who was enrolled on the nineteeth day of August one thousand eighteen hundred and sixty-two to serve three years or during the war, is hereby DISCHARGED from the service of the United States this nineteenth day of July 1865, at Hilton Head, S.C. by reason of GB Na Gh War Dept. May 15th, 1865 (No onjection to his being re-enlisted is known to exist")
Said William Lein was born in Germany in the State (Left blank) is nineteen years of age, five feet nine inches high, fair completion, blue eyes, dark hair, and by occupation, when enrolled a Shoemaker.
Given at Hilton Head, S.C. this nineteenth day of July 1865.
Signed Leslie Smith"


The Bridgeport Telegram
December 26, 1922, page 7
William Lein
Funeral services for William Lein, Civil war veteran, who died Saturday, in the Soldiers Home in Noroton Heights
after a long illness will be held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Reid Memorial Chapel Mountain Grove Cemetery.
Rev. Herman O. Wiemer, pastor of the German Reform Church,
conducted,the services.
A delegation from Munstarberg lodge of odd Fellows attended.
Burial will be in Mountain Grove Cemetery.


The Bridgeport Telegram
December 26, 1922 page 11
LEIN in Noroton, December 22, 1922
William Lein, aged 79 years. Friends are invited to attend the funeral from Reid's Memorial Chapel, on Tuesday. December 26 at 2:30 p. m.Interment at Mountain Grove
Cemetery.
A member of Muensterberg Lodge.I. O . O . F .

The Bridgeport Telegram
December 27, 1922, page 14
William Lein.
Funeral services for William Leln. Civil War Veteran. were held yesterday at 2:30 o'clock at tho Reid Memorial
Chapel. Rev. Herman O. Wiemer, pastor of the Germain Reform Church, conducted the services.
A delegratlon from Muensterberg Lodge of Odd Fellows attended.
Burial was in Mountain Grove Cemetery.