Amos Dorwin
Julius Froman aka Julius Freeman
Company A, 2nd Michigan Infantry
Julius C Froman (b. 19 JUL 1843) was a Prussian-born naturalized citizen of
the United States. He was working as a shoemaker/cobbler in Detroit in 1861
during the A COy, 2nd INF organization and mustered in May. He enlisted as a
private at age 18 as John C. Freeman. By 1863 he'd participated in every
campaign and battle the Company fought and was promoted to Sergeant in 1863.
By 1864 he was A COy First Sergeant and was mustered out to return home with
the rest of the Company at Delaney Court House, Washington DC in July 1965. Governor
Crapo later commissioned him a Second Lieutenant in the Michigan Volunteers
in Spring of 1866. After the war, he stayed on in Detroit as an
entrepreneur, operating a German-style Gasthaus downtown and remaining
active in a local chapter of the GAR. He died on 05 SEP 1900, and was buried
at Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit.
Ancestor of Wayne
R. Keeler
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