Residence following
military service: Pilot Mound, Fillmore County, Minnesota
Vocation following
military service: Laborer
Levi Carr Biography and Civil
War Narrative
Levi Carr was born in 1841 in
Indiana to parents who had come from Kentucky. He enlisted in Company B
of the 5th Minnesota on February 10, 1862, at the age of 21.
Levi Carr was one of the
privates who accompanied Captain Marsh in response to the Yellow
Medicine Agency massacre on August 18, 1862. He was fortunate to
survive the Battle of Redwood and returned to Fort Ridgely under the
leadership of Sergeant John F. Bishop. He then participated in
defending Fort Ridgely on August 20-22. Levi Carr continued with
Company B until he was mustered out at the end of his 3-year enlistment
term on February 9, 1865.
In 1880 39-year-old Levi Carr was living with his nephew, Jacob Julian
(a 30-year-old farmer) and his family in Pilot Mound, Fillmore County,
Minnesota. Carr was working as a Laborer. Jacob was most likely Levi's
sister's son.
Levi
Carr