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Fenter, Ar.
born November 1, 1836 Germany
died July 18, 1863 Hagerstown, Md.
Here lies a
beloved one who fell in the war of [5]623, the honorable Isaac, son of,
on Sunday, 2 Av
Additional information:
Isaac Burgauer had immigrated from
Haigerloch, Germany, in 1853 and settled in
Fenter, Arkansas, in 1859. On June 20, 1861 a company of volunteers was
organized by the Sheriff of Hot Spring County at Rockport., Ar., and
Burgauer joined that company the same day. In July 1861 the "Hot Spring
Hornets", as they called themselves, arrived in Lynchburg, Va., and
were assigned to the Third Regiment of the Arkansas Infantry
Volunteers. "Ike" Burgauer was promoted fifth sergeant in January
1862, and second sergeant in May 1863. He was wounded at the Devil's
Den near Gettysburg on
July 2, 1863 and subsequently taken to Hagerstown, where he died 16
days later. Before he succumbed to his injuries, he had requested to
be
buried in Chambersburg according to Jewish rites.
The minutes book of the Benevolent
Society records that on July 19, 1863 money was collected among the
Jewish families of Hagerstown for the burial of "a rebel soldier". Levi
Stone, a Jewish resident of Hagerstown, provided “horse and carriage”
and took the body to Chambersburg – indeed “a charitable service
at a time when we could hardly get a horse for money.”
The Hebrew inscription makes a point of calling the deceased "a beloved
one": While he was a stranger to those who buried him, he certainly
left behind a bereaved family somewhere. Tellingly, his father's name
is missing in the epitaph.
Isaac Burgauer is the only Confederate soldier known to be buried in a
Jewish cemetery in a Union state, and one of very few Confederate soldiers of the Civil War buried in
Chambersburg cemeteries..
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