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CORPORAL ANTON
STEFFENS
(1843-1862)
20th Massachusetts
Volunteers
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EMIGRATED: 1852
RESIDENCE- 1852-1861: Suffolk St., Boston, Mass.
OCCUPATION: Brass finisher
MUSTERED IN SERVICE:
Readville, Mass. July 1861
CAMPAIGNS: Ball's Bluff, Yorktown, West
Point, Fair Oaks, Peach Orchard, Savage's Station, Glendale, Malvern Hill,
Chantilly, Antietam, Fredericksburg.
KILLED IN BATTLE: December 11, 1862, during gallant charge of
the 20th Mass. in the streets of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
EPITAPH: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (later the hero of
Gettysburg), referring to the unusual occurrence of "Northern lights" on
the night following the battle, said this of the Union dead at
Fredericksburg:
" Who
would not pass on as they did- dead for their country's life- and lighted
to burial by the meteor splendour of their native skies."
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