John Litogot posed for this photograph shortly after he enlisted in the 24th Michigan Volunteer Infantry in July 1862 during the Civil War. Litogot's first battle was also his last -- he was killed during the Battle of Fredericksburg that December. Litogot was Henry Ford's mother's brother -- the orphaned Litogots were adopted by different families as children. Ford never knew his uncle John, who died before Ford was born in July 1863.