| A SLATER GUARD HERO
Frank X Sinzinger who for the past four or five years has been an inmate of the Soldiers Home in Togus, Maine, died there about two weeks ago, at he ripe age of 78 years, (death occuring about August 7th). Mr. Sinzinger was one of the original members of Co. I, 15th Mass. Volunteers, known as the Slater Guards, and was one of the lucky ones, at the Battle of Balls Bluff; being neither wounded or captured. He was born in Germany, came to this state while a young man, drifted to Florida where he enlisted in the U.S. Army, came on to Webster before the war, and joined the Slater Guards in which and (in) a Light Battery Company he passed through the rebellion. After the rebellion he made Webster his home working at the Slater Woolen Company Mills untill sickness took him to the home at Togus. He was a well known, was a jovial man and thought much of by his countrymen in town. He enlisted July 5, 1861 as private in Co. I. 15th Mass, also served from December 5th, 1864 untill August 7th, 1865 in the 6th Mass Light Battery and was discharged at the close of the war, serving 44 months. Joined Post 61, February 27, 1880, and retained membership up to his death. |