Theodore Buck

Theodore Buck, 1824-1896
A Union Artilleryman at Vicksburg
 
Buried in Porter Cemetery, Block 33, Plot C

(Grave marker photo courtesy of the Pioneers Cemetery Association)

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Theodore Buck claimed to have been born in 1824 in Prussia.
 
Buck was older than the average recruit when he enlisted in the Union Army on November 23, 1862, in Clinton, Illinois. While serving as a private in Battery F, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, he suffered deafness in both ears, likely caused by the incessant cannonading during the Siege of Vicksburg in 1863. He was discharged July 27, 1865 with the rank of private. 
 
By 1878, Buck was in Phoenix, where he registered to vote. The 1880 federal census of Phoenix, Arizona, shows a Theodor Buck, born Prussia 1825, unmarried, living in the household of Miguel Peralta, a general store proprietor. Buck was working as a porter in the store.
 
Theodore Buck was a founding member of the John Wren Owen GAR post. In 1887 and again in 1892, he visited the hospital at the Old Soldiers Home in Leavenworth, Kansas, for medical attention. He applied for and received invalid pension #771,427.
 
When he died on October 24, 1896, Buck was living at the Star Lodging House and working as a janitor at the Five Points School. He was buried in Porter Cemetery, Block 33, Grave C. His grave has a military marker. 
 
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