CIVIL WAR RECORDS: Volunteer Enlistment, State of Minnesota, Town of St Paul, born Chatham, Ohio. 

DECLARATION OF RECRUIT: Lafayette Truesdell of Lillian (now Stanton), Goodhue County, Minnesota, 18 years, ten months enlist to serve one year this 2nd day of March 1865. 

Physical Description: brown eyes, black hair, dark complexion & 5'6". 

Mustered to Louisville, Kentucky on July 11, 1865. 

Bounty paid $33.33 1/3.