Steele, Charles G.

Rank: Musician

Unit: C Co, 2d Dragoons

Enlisted: September 3, 1839 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was 19.

Date of birth: 1820

Hometown: Wurtemburgh [Wurttemberg], , Germany

Occupation prior to enlistment: Musician

Campaign: Second Seminole War

Died: 26 August 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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