Career
Voit immigrated to the United States in 1862, and enlisted in the Union Army 13th Infantry during the American Civil War in December 1864. He was a "saddler" (saddle-maker) in Germany and with the United States. Army. He deserted his unit at a Missouri River post on February 21, 1866 and subsequently reenlisted in Company H of George Armstrong Custer"s Seventh Cavalry in December 1866 using the alias Frank May.
On December 5, 1873 he surrendered as a deserter and received clemency by Presidential proclamation.
Voit was wounded in the Reno-Benteen hilltop action at the Little Bighorn. Voit was discharged in 1898 as Saddler Sergeant at Fort Grant, Arizona.
He moved to Louisville, Kentucky and in 1902 became a United States citizen. He died of influenza at age 61 and was buried in Saint Stephens Cemetery in Louisville.