The son of Rev. Henry Schantz & Mary Rebecca (Dechant) Bassler, in 1860 he was a tinner living with and/or working for foundry owner J. D. Snyder in Mifflin Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 6" tall and had black hair.
A Civil War veteran, he first enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg April 21, 1861, as a private with Co. F, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 31, 1861. He then enlisted at Camp Cameron, Harrisburg, October 15, 1861, and mustered into federal service there October 31 as a private Co. B, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa). He was promoted to corporal May 1, 1862, to sergeant September 1, 1862, and to 2nd lieutenant of Co. I on May 27, 1863, at Winchester, Tennessee. (Oddly, he never mustered at the latter rank while in the service. Only in 1890 did the War Department issue a muster date of April 22, 1863.) He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer January 1, 1864, and commanded Co. I beginning December 31, 1864. Absent on furlough - his first since enlisting - at muster-out, he honorably discharged July 18, 1865.
He married Angela Miller and fathered Edwin M. (b. @1868). Angela died in 1869, and he married Anna Maria Miller in 1877 in Philadelphia. Children, if any, are unknown. By 1880, he was living in Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and by 1900, in Chicago, Illinois.
Data provided by Tombstone Inscription: Jacob F. Bassler; 1839-1901; Capt 9-Pa Cal Co 1
A Civil War veteran, he first enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg April 21, 1861, as a private with Co. F, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 31, 1861. He then enlisted at Camp Cameron, Harrisburg, October 15, 1861, and mustered into federal service there October 31 as a private Co. B, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa). He was promoted to corporal May 1, 1862, to sergeant September 1, 1862, and to 2nd lieutenant of Co. I on May 27, 1863, at Winchester, Tennessee. (Oddly, he never mustered at the latter rank while in the service. Only in 1890 did the War Department issue a muster date of April 22, 1863.) He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer January 1, 1864, and commanded Co. I beginning December 31, 1864. Absent on furlough - his first since enlisting - at muster-out, he honorably discharged July 18, 1865.
He married Angela Miller and fathered Edwin M. (b. @1868). Angela died in 1869, and he married Anna Maria Miller in 1877 in Philadelphia. Children, if any, are unknown. By 1880, he was living in Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and by 1900, in Chicago, Illinois.
Data provided by Tombstone Inscription: Jacob F. Bassler; 1839-1901; Capt 9-Pa Cal Co 1
The son of Rev. Henry Schantz & Mary Rebecca (Dechant) Bassler, in 1860 he was a tinner living with and/or working for foundry owner J. D. Snyder in Mifflin Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 6" tall and had black hair.
A Civil War veteran, he first enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg April 21, 1861, as a private with Co. F, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 31, 1861. He then enlisted at Camp Cameron, Harrisburg, October 15, 1861, and mustered into federal service there October 31 as a private Co. B, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa). He was promoted to corporal May 1, 1862, to sergeant September 1, 1862, and to 2nd lieutenant of Co. I on May 27, 1863, at Winchester, Tennessee. (Oddly, he never mustered at the latter rank while in the service. Only in 1890 did the War Department issue a muster date of April 22, 1863.) He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer January 1, 1864, and commanded Co. I beginning December 31, 1864. Absent on furlough - his first since enlisting - at muster-out, he honorably discharged July 18, 1865.
He married Angela Miller and fathered Edwin M. (b. @1868). Angela died in 1869, and he married Anna Maria Miller in 1877 in Philadelphia. Children, if any, are unknown. By 1880, he was living in Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and by 1900, in Chicago, Illinois.
Data provided by Tombstone Inscription: Jacob F. Bassler; 1839-1901; Capt 9-Pa Cal Co 1
A Civil War veteran, he first enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg April 21, 1861, as a private with Co. F, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 31, 1861. He then enlisted at Camp Cameron, Harrisburg, October 15, 1861, and mustered into federal service there October 31 as a private Co. B, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa). He was promoted to corporal May 1, 1862, to sergeant September 1, 1862, and to 2nd lieutenant of Co. I on May 27, 1863, at Winchester, Tennessee. (Oddly, he never mustered at the latter rank while in the service. Only in 1890 did the War Department issue a muster date of April 22, 1863.) He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer January 1, 1864, and commanded Co. I beginning December 31, 1864. Absent on furlough - his first since enlisting - at muster-out, he honorably discharged July 18, 1865.
He married Angela Miller and fathered Edwin M. (b. @1868). Angela died in 1869, and he married Anna Maria Miller in 1877 in Philadelphia. Children, if any, are unknown. By 1880, he was living in Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and by 1900, in Chicago, Illinois.
Data provided by Tombstone Inscription: Jacob F. Bassler; 1839-1901; Capt 9-Pa Cal Co 1
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