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Carl
Ludwig Wilhelm "William" SONSMITH You are here: Photo Albums • SONSMITH / SONNENSCHMIDT • Carl Ludwig Wilhelm These pictures were obtained from a photograph album which belonged to William's neice, Lina (SONSMITH) DEMUN. I have left the captions of the photographs just as Lina had them labeled. Photo Gallery
29th Regiment Michigan Infantry 1864-5 William was a soldier in the 29th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War. Below is information about this regiment. In the orders authorizing the forming of the regiments raised during the year 1864, this Regiment was originally designated the Thirty First. The recruits which had enlisted for the Thirtieth, having been absorbed into the Third and Fourth Regiments, re-organized, the Twenty Ninth, as originally known, consolidated with the Twenty Eighth, the Thirty First was given the designation as the Twenty Ninth. It was raised entirely in the Sixth Congressional District, being organized at Saginaw, Michigan, by the Honorable John Driggs, the muster of the Regiment was completed on the October 3, 1864.
The 29th broke camp on the October 6th, for Nashville,Tennessee, under the command of Colonel Saylor, who had been commissioned from the 3rd Cavalry, having on its rolls, 856 officers and men. The Regiment was diverted to Decatur,Alabama on the 26th, the Confederate army, under General Hood attacking that city the same day, with the 29th aiding in the defence until the 30th, when the Southern forces retired. On the November 24th, they marched to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, arriving there on the 27th, then moved out to Overall Creek, where they were engaged on the December 7th. On the 13th, they were sent out again, as an escort of a Railroad train to procure fuel for the locomotive, when they were attacked by a superior force near Winstead Church, where a severe engagement occurred. The Confederates were repulsed, but only after they had torn up the track. The Regiment relaid the track, and succeeded in saving the train, by pulling it into Murfreesboro by hand. On the 15th and 16th, they were again attacked while guarding another train near Alexandria on the Shelbyville Pike.
They were then assigned to guard the Nashville and Chattanooga rail line until July of 1865, then moved to Murfreesboro until September 6th. when they were mustered out of the service, returning to Michigan, arriving in Detroit on the 8th, where they were paid off and disbanded on the 12th. During their term of federal service, they were engaged at Decatur, Alabama, Overall Creek, Tennessee, Winstead Church, Tennessee, Shelbyville Pike, Tennessee, and Nolansville, Tennessee.
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Enrollment - 1470
Obituary for William's wife, Sophia KRAEMER: Saginaw News- January 26, 1938 Mrs. Sophia Sonsmith, 88, resident of Saginaw for more than 50 years, died Tuesday after a short illness at her home, 115 South Twelfth Street. Sophie Kremer was born May 13, 1849 in Mecklenburg, Germany, and came to the United States four years later. She was married Feb. 29, 1912 in Frankenmuth to William Sonsmith, who died in 1912. Mrs. Sonsmith was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, Second and Federal, and an honorary member of its Ladies Aid society. She leaves two brothers, Bernard A. of Saginaw and Herman of Cleveland; two sons and one daughter, Mrs. Samuel E. Carrell and Louis H. Sonsmith and George R. Sonsmith, all of Saginaw; 12 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. The funeral will take place at 2:30 Friday at the Wallace and Honey funeral home, Rev. Frederick Volz will officiate and burial will be in Forest Lawn. |
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