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Daniel Bloedau, son of Christoph Stephan Bloedau and Catharina Anne Juhnke, was born in 1795 in Osiek, Posen, Prussia. He married Christina Krienke (1796-1849), daughter of Daniel Krienke and Catharina Anna Weinkauf, in 1812 in Lobsens, Posen, Prussia. They had eleven children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Prussia, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
This volume tells the stories of 62 men and women from Wisconsin who served in the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II. Letters from the Front is a vivid social history of wartime as told by those who took part in these foreign conflicts. Most of them are "ordinary" people, uprooted from farms, factories, and offices, who took part in extraordinary events. This work explores how war changed their lives and reveals the emotions they felt in uniform, in remote outposts, in combat, and in prison camps. These letters, diaries, oral histories, newspapers, and contemporary accounts provide a history of adaptation to military life; they also reflect the changes that occurred over the half-century encompassing these confilcts, an era of great technological innovation -- and one in which America's vision of itself also changed.