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Barth, Christ (Christoph), C/SGT.
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Home Town Waldorf, Baden
Last Address Marion, Marion County, Ohio
Date of Passing Feb 05, 1923
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Color Sergeant Christ Barth was born in Germany in 1865 and had immigrated with his family to the United States in 1881 settling in Marion County, Ohio.
In 1887 Christ Enlisted with Company H, 2nd Cavalry Regiment and served as a musician until 1892 when he was discharged.
On 20 April 1892 Christ again enlisted this time assigned to Company F, 22nd Infantry Regiment where he also served as a musician. In 1897 Christ was promoted to First Sergeant and transferred to Company L, 22nd Infantry where he remained until 1908.
1908 saw First Sergeant Barth sent to Fort William H. Seward, Alaska Territory where he was appointed Quartermaster Sergeant until 1909 when he was made Color Sergeant both times serving with 22nd Infantry Regimental Headquarters.
On 16 June 1910 Color Sergeant Barth retired with 23 years of service having seen campaigns in Indian territory, Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars as well as humanitarian duties in San Francisco following the great earthquake of 1906.
Upon Returning home to Ohio Christ married Lydia Ambrust in November 1910, who had also immigrated from Germany. The couple remained in Ohio and Christ worked with a steel company.
Christ and Lydia had traveled to Germany in 1915 and again following WWI to visit family whom they were worried about following the war.
in 1923 Color Sergeant Christ Barth passed away in Ohio at which time Lydia returned to her family in Germany where several years later she also passed.
Christ's burial location in Ohio is unknown at this time.
Indian Wars (US)
From Month/Year
January / 1775
To Month/Year
December / 1898
Description The American Indian Wars, or Indian Wars, were the multiple armed conflicts between European governments and colonists, and later American settlers or the United States government, and the native peoples of North America. These conflicts occurred across the North American continent from the time of earliest colonial settlements until 1924. In many cases, wars resulted from competition for resources and land ownership as Europeans and later Americans encroached onto territory which had been inhabited by Native Americans for the previous centuries. There was population pressure as settlers expanded their territory, generally pushing indigenous people northward and westward. Warfare and raiding also took place as a result of wars between European powers; in North America, these enlisted their Native American allies to help them conduct warfare against each other's settlements.
Many conflicts were local, involving disputes over land use, and some entailed cycles of reprisal. Particularly in later years, conflicts were spurred by ideologies such as Manifest Destiny, which held that the United States was destined to expand from coast to coast on the North American continent. In the 1830s, the United States had a policy of Indian removal east of the Mississippi River, which was a planned, large-scale removal of indigenous peoples from the areas where Americans were settling. Particularly in the years leading up to Congressional passage of the related act, there was armed conflict between settlers and Native Americans; some removal was achieved through sale or exchange of territory through treaties.
