Person:Wenzel Schmeykal (1)

Schmeykal Wenzl J - In a remote corner of the Catholic Cemetery of Avilla there sleeps the last sleep of a worthy Union soldier, whose grave either by accident or neglect has for years escaped decoration by the surviving veterans of the Civil War. Living on a farm in Cherokee County, Ala. at the breaking out of the Civil War, which he abandoned, coming north and communication having been cut off, he, with his wife and two small children traveled across the country until he reached Nashville, Tenn., where he enlisted in the First Reg., Tenn., Union Volunteers, then being formed. Attached to the army of the Cumberland, he participated in the Battle of Murfreesboro, where he was wounded. He received an honorable discharge from General Rosecrans. That soldier, whose patriotism and devotion to the cause of the Union, his adopted country, has never been excelled and seemingly, deserves proper recognition at the hands of the surviving veterans of the Civil War on Decoration Day which it has never received. ^ 6-8-1906