CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: LAWRENCE AMSTEATT.

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Submitted by Doris Peirce - ginlu@charter.net
1 February 2002 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 
LAWRENCE AMSTEATT

Lawrence Amsteatt, a veteran of the 20th Texas Infantry, committed 
suicide by cutting his throat at the Confederate home, at Austin, 
Texas, Aug. 23, 1907.  This was indeed a sad end to the gallant old 
man who shared the struggles and hardships of the campaigns of his 
regiment.  The old Confederates are answering the final roll call 
at a rate so rapid, that soon the last one who served in the war 
between the states will have passed off the stage of this life, 
and enter the realms of the unseen world.  What condition of mind 
led to this is only known to the God who gave life to Comrade 
Amsteatt.  He was sent to the Confederate home from Galveston.