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Sergeant Isaac Putnam Smith (Ike)

Birth Date: 1835

Date of Death: May 9, 1908

Enlistment Date: April 18, 1861 at Brooklyn, New York to serve 3 years (aged 24 years)

Mustered In: May 23, 1861 as sergeant in Company G.
Marksman

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Company: G

Muster Out Date: Discharged - For Disability on September 12, 1862 at Washington, D.C

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Marriage Date and Place: Fleet Street Methodist Church on July 4, 1861

Wife's Maiden Name: Julia Barclay
Julia left to return to Brooklyn in 1882, when she heard her son Robert Stuart was ill.
Never returned to Australia or to Ike.
Married - Alexandra Black in Sydney in 1885 (never divorced from Julia)

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Entered traveling show as marksman, taking the name "Colonel Ike Austin"
Traveled to:
England
Far East
Australia
Joined Circus Company - St. Leon's Circus and toured Australia.
Spent last years of his life, when his eyesight failed, at the George Street Asylum in Parramatta (a suburb of Sydney), Australia.

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  • Isaac is buried in Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, Australia
  • Sources:
    The History of the Fighting Fourteenth by Tevis & Marquis.
    Military & Pension papers from the National Archives, Washington, DC.
    Information, including Australian newspaper articles, provided by Terry Foenander

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