Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1918 — FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR: FINDS HE IS ALIEN ENEMY [ARTICLE]

FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR: FINDS HE IS ALIEN ENEMY

Although he fought in the civil war, has been receiving a pension from the government for many years and is a member of the National Soldiers’ home at Danville, 111., Albert Craus, age eighty-nine, finds that he is an alien German enemy and must register as such. At the same time, he says he is one of the most patriotic residents of Danville. Until a few days ago he believed he was in every sense a citizen of this country. ' • Mr. Craus came to America in 1854, settling at Newport, Ind. There he took out his first papers. Following this action, which he believed was all that was required of him, he voted for Lincoln in 1860. When war broke out, although he had lived * only a short time, he'enlisted and fought throughout the conflict. He was once in the German army and when he registered at police headquarters he said his only regret was that he was too, old to take up arms against the land of his birth.