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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WILMETTE RESIDENT DIED IN MILITARY SERViCE CIVIL WAR JOHN AUGUSTUS FIEGEN Private, Twenty-third Infantry Illinois Volunteers, Company "A" Private Fiegen was wounded and taken prisoner in the battle of Kernstown, at Winchester, Va. [Virginia] on July 24, 1864. The Adjutant General's History of the Twenty-third Infantry states that "In the battle of Kernstown on the 24th, the Regiment lost in killed and wounded about one-half of those engaged therein." Supposed to have died in Andersonville Prison, Georgia, on August 20, 1864, and been buried in grave No. 6265. He was 44 years old when he mustered into the service on March 8, 1864 in Greenland, Va. [Virginia] for a term of three years. Records show that he was a carpenter, 5 feet, 6-3/4 inches tall, with hazel eyes, dark hair and sandy complexion, that he was born in Prussia. According to his great grandson, still living in Wilmette in 1995, Private Fiegen had been married in 1845 to Mary Elizabeth Hoffman and by 1862 they had had 10 children, not all of whom lived. Their home was on what is now Illinois Road, Wilmette, and was then called Reinwald Avenue in the Grosse Pointe area which was incorporated as Gross Point village in 1874, and annexed by Wilmette in 1924. He served as "constable of the territory of New Trier" prior to the Civil War. Church Affiliation: St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Wilmette Sources: Frank Fiegen, great-grandson, Wilmette Illinois State Archives, John Fiegen service record Adjutant General's Report, History of the Twenty-third Infantry 1995 Family Contact: Frank Fiegen (great-grandson), 2112 Schiller Av.., Wilmette, IL 60091 [Illinois] (708) 251-5082 --1--