• General Notes

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  Confederate cavalryman, rancher. His family emigrated to Texas soon after
  he as born.  did some farming and/or ranching in Comal County, Texas. 
  Joined the confederate Army in New Braunfels, Texas.  The unit of which
  he was a member was variously known as Capt. Gustav Hoffman's Company,
  6th Regiment Texas Mounted Volunteers; Capt. Hoffman's Company, 7th
  Regiment Texas Mounted volunteers; and Company B, 7th Regiment Texas
  Cavalry. At enlistment his horse was valued at $ 90.00 and his equipment
  at $ 30.00. He lost his horse and saddle on March 10, 1862.  Tradition
  says he fought in the battle of Galveston, January 1, 1863.  Received a
  serious shrapnel wound in the temple during the war, and carried pieces
  of the shrapnel imbedded under the skin until his death in 1936. Records
  indicate he was on sick furlough from December 1, 1863 to October 1864,
  when he returned to Tennessee Colony under Capt. Ragsdale's command,
  serving honorably until the company was disbanded in Louisiana and he
  went home in September of 1865. After the war he returned to ranching. He
  is reputed to have fought Indians.  His religion was Roman Catholic.
  Daguerreotype in existence. 

Details of Kasper's family with Ottilie Haas