b. 11/10/1841 Monroe County, Michigan. d. 20/04/1923 Newport, Michigan.
DATE OF MOH ACTION: 03/05/1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Peter Sype MOH
Sype was actually born Johann Peter Sype in Monroe County, Michigan in October 1841 to parents Christian and Maria Elizabeth Seip. He married Marie Louisa Doederlein in 1870 and fathered 10 children.
On 15 June 1861, Sype enlisted as a private in Adrian, Michigan. As Michigan had filled its recruitment quotas, he was reassigned to Company B of the 47th Ohio Infantry. During the Siege of Vicksburg, on the night of 3 May 1863, Sype volunteered to guard a shipment of goods that was attempting to make its way past the Confederate blockade of the town. After the steamboat he was on was shelled and sunk, he was captured as a Confederate prisoner of war. He was later wounded near Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia in June 1864. Sype was mustered out of service on 10 September 1864 in Atlanta, Georgia.
He did not receive his Medal of Honor until September 12, 1911.
MOH CITATION:
Was one of a party that volunteered and attempted to run the enemy’s batteries with a steam tug and two barges loaded with subsistence stores.
BURIAL LOCATION: TRINITY LUTHERAN CEMETERY, MONROE, MICHIGAN.
SECTION A, LOT 88.
LOCATION OF MEDAL: UNKNOWN.
