Civil War Veterans of Monterey County, California.

Researched and Compiled by : 
Timothy P. Reese, PCC of Salinas , CA. & Robert L. Nelson ,PCC. of Santa Cruz.CA. 
Both members of the “Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War”. 
Department of California & Pacific. Camp Abraham Lincoln # 10.  
The Reese-Nelson CWV-MC Data Base


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HARTMAN, ALBERT	   (1840-1905)   IOOF
(Salinas Weekly Journal April 8, 1905)

Veteran Commits Suicide
Despondent Old Soldier Ends His Life With a Revolver at Castroville
  Albert Hartman, a veteran of the civil war, committed suicide yesterday morning at 
Castroville by shooting himself with a 32 calibre revolver.  The deed was committed 
in an outhouse at the residence of his sons, with whom he resided.  Holding the 
revolver to his right temple, he sent a bullet crashing into his brain and died almost 
instantaneously.
  Despondency, caused by ill health, is thought to have prompted the rash act, as the 
deceased had for a long time been a sufferer from hernia.  He was a native of Shelby 
county, Indiana, and was 64 years of age.  October 11, 1861, en enlisted in the Fourth 
Iowa Cavalry and served until August 8, 1865.
  Mr. Hartman had lived in Castroville not very long.  He was formerly an inmate of the 
national Soldiers’ Home at Topeka, Kansas, and received an honorable discharge from 
that institution last year.  His pension money he had not drawn since January.