Fairfield County CT Archives Obituaries.....Stottlar, Henry April 18, 1863

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Stamford Soldiers' Memorial 1869
  HENRY STOTTLAR, son of widow Catharine Stottlar, was born May 26, 1839. He
enlisted into the Navy at the early age of fifteen, and served before the mast
on the African coast. In 1862 he was on the U. S. Ship Onward, stationed at
Savannah. With a boat's crew he was captured in July of that year, while on
reconnoitering expedition and paroled. While on the voyage home, on the Ship
Mountaineer, from, Port Royal, on the 18th of April, 1863, he fell from the
mizzen topsail yard, struck the rail, fell overboard and was drowned. One of his
shipmates in a letter of condolence to the afflicted mother says of him: "he was
loved on shipboard and honored on shore by all that knew him as an honest and
upright young man." He was the youngest of the five sons of widow Stottlar, who
volunteered into the service of the Government.

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