Christian Friedrich August Bloedner was a Saxe-Altenburg-born

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from

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, who served with the 32nd Regiment Indiana Infantry during the

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. He built the 32nd Indiana Monument.

Biography

August Bloedner was born around 1825 in

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. Emigrating to the

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, he lived in

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until enlisting in the 32nd Regiment Indiana Infantry in August 1861. He commemorated the deaths of his comrades killed in action at the Battle of Rowlett's Station,

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, in December 1861, by building the first

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after the Civil War. Following the conclusion of the war, Bloedner returned to Cincinnati, where he worked as a marble and stone cutter until his death from heart disease on November 14, 1872.

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German Indiana Regt. Monument To be Preserved
* 1872 deaths Immigrants to the United States Military personnel from Cincinnati People from Saxe-Altenburg Union army soldiers People of Ohio in the American Civil War 1820s births Burials at Vine Street Hill Cemetery {{AmericanCivilWar-bio-stub