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History of Buffalo & Pepin Counties, Wisconsin - Vol. 1
pub. H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Winona, MN - 1919

         [page 127]

         CHARLES ANDREW RAITZ, a veteran of the American Civil War,
       and later a farmer in Buffalo county, who is now living re-
       tired in Fountain City, was born in Baden, Germany, June 7,
       1845, son of JOHN ADAM and ELIZABETH (SAUTER) RAITZ. He was
       an infant in his second year when he accompanied his parents
       to this country, and was about six years old when they arrived
       in Buffalo county from Illinois, in 1851. His youth was spent
       after that on his parents' farm near Fountain City, and his
       education was mostly picked up as he found opportunity, as he
       had but little chance to attend school. On Dec. 25, 1863, at
       the height of the Civil War, he enlisted in Company H, Sixth
       Wisconsin Infantry, at Fountain City, and being mustered in
       as a private at Madison. His first experience at the front
       was at Culpeper, Va., the regiment being assigned to the
       First Brigade, Third Division, Fifth Army Corps. After serving
       for a year and a half MR. RAITZ was mustered out at Jeffer-
       sonville, Ind., and returned home to Fountain City. During
       his career as a soldier he took part in some hard fought
       battles, including those of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Hatch's
       Run, North Ann River, Spottsylvania and Laurel Hill. On his
       return home he resumed farming for a while, and then spent
       two years in learning the trade of blacksmith under JOHN CLARK,
       subsequently working as a journeyman for different people.
       He then opened a shop of his own in Waumandee township, oper-
       ating it for a year, after which for five years he conducted
       a shop in Independence. He then gave up his trade and took up
       farming on his parents' old homestead of 160 acres. There he
       remained for twenty-three years, when, on account of his health,
       he sold the place and came to Fountain City. Here he became
       janitor of the high school, held that position for nine years,
       and then retired from active work. For one term he served as
       alderman here. He is a member of the G. A. R. Post. He and
       his family are members of the Reform church. MR. RAITZ was
       married in Waumandee township, March 20, 1872, to AMELIA H.
       LINSE, who was born in Columbia county, Wisconsin, May 16,
       1855, daughter of HENRY and MARY LINSE, her parents being
       natives of Saxony, Germany, who settled on a farm in Anchor-
       age, this county. She was the eleventh born in a family of
       twelve children. Mr. and Mrs. RAITZ are the parents of four
       children: HENRY, now in South Dakota; EDWARD, in Canada;
       DELLA, who is in St. Paul, Minn.; and MAYBELLE, a graduate
       of Fountain City high school in the class of 1918.

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