Residence following
military service: Hollywood Township, Carver County, Minnesota
(1870); Winsted, McLeod County, Minnesota (1890)
Vocation following
military service: Farmer (1870)
Martin Lorch Biography and Civil
War Narrative
Martin Lorch was born about 1824
in Wurttemberg (Germany). He enlisted in the 5th Minnesota
Regiment on August 13, 1864, and was mustered in on September 3. After
serving in the final months of the Civil War, Private Lorch was
mustered out with his regiment on September 6, 1865.
At the time of the 1870 U.S. Census, Martin Lorch is listed as a
48-year-old Farmer living in Hollywood Township, Carver County,
Minnesota. About 1873, "John Martin Lorch" married Caroline Richter.
In the 1890 Census of Veterans, "John M. Lorch" of Company E, 5th
Minnesota Regiment, is listed as a resident of Winsted, McLeod County,
Minnesota. His "Disability Incurred" is listed as dyspepsia
(indigestion). According to the Minnesota Veterans Grave Registration
Index, Martin Lorch died October 25, 1892, and was buried in McLeod
County.
Martin Lorch