People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — A VETERAN GONE. [ARTICLE]

A VETERAN GONE.

Death in New York of a Survivor of Four Great Wars. Port Jervis, N. ¥., Jan. 11.—Charles E. G. Winters, a veteran of four of the great wars of the nineteenth century, died in this place Monday night in actual want He never joined any organization and never applied for a pension. He was born in Baritzlan, Prussia, in 1829, and served in the Crimea in the British-German legion, receiving a silver medal for bravery on the field of battle. He next fought on the Prussian side in the war against Austria. He came to America in 1832 and served- throughout the war of the rebellion in the Tenth New York regiment In 1870 he entered the German army, participating in the battle of Sedan, and being decorated with the Order of the Iron Cross.