Obituary from the Appleton Post Crescent (30 August 1937):

Antigo, Wis – The body of Colonel Lloyd Breck of Merrill, Wis., who died there Saturday night, will be brought here tomorrow for burial following funeral services in Merrill. Breck, who was 94 years old, was a former commander of GAR posts in Antigo, Oconomowoc and Merrill. He outlived all members.

From the Sheboygan Press (13 June 1933):

Chief of Staff Lloyd Breck of the Wisconsin Department (Grand Army of the Republic), has a real record. He is commander of Lincoln Post No. 131 at Merrill. He was commander of the Oconomowoc post thirty years ago, and now there is not a single living member of that post. He was also commander of the Antigo post forty years ago, and only two members of that post are alive. There are two other members in the Merrill post besides him.

Comrade Breck saw the covered wagons leaving for California in ’49. Some of his neighbors went in them, and they stopped en route to say "good-bye." He enlisted in Company C, Twenty-eighth Wisconsin, on August 14, 1862, and was discharged when Lee surrendered. He was 90 years old on St. Patrick’s day – and is not Irish, either.

(Note: the title of "Colonel" used in the obituary appears to have been honorary. Lloyd Breck enlisted a private at Summit, WI, on Aug. 14, 1862, in Co. C, 28th Wisconsin Vol. Infantry. He mustered out as a private on May 31, 1865. The reference to being discharged when Lee surrendered is incorrect. The 28th Wisconsin was discharged in Brownsville, texas, four months after Lee's surrender.)

Sources: Appleton Post Crescent, 30 August 1937, Pg 12
Sheboygan Press, 13 June 1933, Pg 4

Researched by Bro. Vince Barker

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