{"id":3126,"date":"2016-08-19T20:17:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T20:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2016-08-20T20:13:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T20:13:43","slug":"george-a-trautvetters-civil-war-desertion-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3126","title":{"rendered":"George A. Trautvetter\u2019s Civil War Desertion-Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People do not live in vacuums.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/adjutantgeneralpage1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3129 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/adjutantgeneralpage1-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"adjutantgeneralpage1\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/adjutantgeneralpage1-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/adjutantgeneralpage1.jpg 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>George A. Trautvetter was not the only man who deserted Company H of the 49th Illinois on 26 July 1865.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there are four men who appear in the Adjutant General&#8217;s report as having deserted on that date:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William Doerges<\/li>\n<li>Henry Doerges<\/li>\n<li>Adam Enders<\/li>\n<li>George A. Trautvetter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All four men are listed with a residence of Warsaw, Illinois. Their unit was in Kansas and headed to Ft. Kearney, Nebraska, at the time they deserted. The fact that all four deserted on the same day and were from the same place cannot be a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/adjutantgeneralpage2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3128 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/adjutantgeneralpage2.jpg\" alt=\"adjutantgeneralpage2\" width=\"737\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/adjutantgeneralpage2.jpg 737w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/adjutantgeneralpage2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/adjutantgeneralpage2-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/adjutantgeneralpage3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3127 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/adjutantgeneralpage3.jpg\" alt=\"adjutantgeneralpage3\" width=\"716\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/adjutantgeneralpage3.jpg 716w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/adjutantgeneralpage3-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe four were all German natives of varying ages. The 1860 census for Hancock County, Illinois, shows them as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adam Enders, aged 32, stone mason, born , living in Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois (family 4446)<\/li>\n<li>William Doeurges, aged 14, born in Hanover, living in Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois (family 4820)<\/li>\n<li>Henry Doeurges, aged 12, born in Hanover, living in Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois (family 4820)<\/li>\n<li>George Trautvetter, aged 17, born in Saxony, living in Rocky Run Township, Hancock County, Illinois (family 3516)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems fairly reasonable that all four German natives in the same unit who enlisted from the same town all headed back to Illinois on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to remember that desertion was not uncommon during the Civil War and that the war was over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People do not live in vacuums.\u00a0 George A. Trautvetter was not the only man who deserted Company H of the 49th Illinois on 26 July 1865. In fact, there are four men who appear in the Adjutant General&#8217;s report as having deserted on that date: William Doerges Henry Doerges Adam Enders George A. Trautvetter All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-3126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-george-a-trautvetter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}