Luge or Luger, Augustus

Rank: Private

Unit: C Co, 2d Dragoons

Enlisted: August 20, 1840 in New York, New York. He was 22.

Date of birth: 1818

Hometown: Saxony, Germany

Occupation prior to enlistment: Trader

Campaign: Second Seminole War

Died: 14 October 1841

Cause of death: Disease

Location of fatality: Saint John‘s Bluff, Florida

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Place of interment: Saint Augustine National Cemetery in Saint Augustine, Florida

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