Michael Randler reportedly arrived in the United States at the port of New York on January 5, 1858, and shortly thereafter settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, although he is not found in the 1860 census there. He was a day laborer by professed occupation and stood 5' 9" tall with brown hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three in Lancaster October 2, 1861, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. K, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Captured at the battle of Chickamauga on September 19 or 20, 1863, he was incarcerated in Richmond, Virginia, where his obituary claims he was "nearly starved to death." While the near starvation is almost certainly true, the location is wrong as Libby Prison by then housed only officers. He was more likely held on Belle Isle. On January 27, 1864, he was transferred to the prison at Danville, Virginia, but ultimately was incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, then was among those relocated to the prison in Millen, Georgia, on November 11. Paroled at Wilmington, North Carolina, on February 27, 1865, he was forwarded to Camp Parole in Annapolis, Maryland. Ultimately admitted to a military hospital in Baltimore, he there discharged the service to date May 30, 1865 (May 19 also reported). He is in the company register, Bates History of Pennsylvania Infantry, and the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file as "Rinkler," but he applied for his disability pension as "Rendler."
He married Lancaster County-born Fanny Hesslet. Reports that they married in 1864 are clearly inaccurate as he was a prisoner of the Confederacy that entire year. He fathered Andrew H. (b. 11/19/66), Barbara Alice (b. 04/05/67 - married John H. Shank), Elizabeth (b. 03/06/70 - married Abraham S. Weaver), Mary H. (b. 11/05/71 - married Daniel G. Brandt), Katharine H. "Katie" (b. 10/04/73 - married Jacob R. Geib), Harry H. (b. 07/09/75), Eli H. (b. 03/11/78), William H. (b. 03/19/78), and Michael (b. 11/17/81). In 1889, he pled guilty to stealing a neighbor's chickens that he admitted he did not need and regretted having done so. The court sentenced him to a "light sentence" of three months' imprisonment and ordered Rendler to make financial restitution.
On the last day of his life, he was living "about three and one-half miles north of Mt. Joy borough," where, per the headline in the Lancaster Semi-Weekly New Era, he was "pounded to death on a rough road at the heels of a frenzied horse." Rendler had entered his barn and thrown reins onto a "restless" horse when his feet became entangled in the harness. The horse bolted, throwing Rendler to the floor. The animal trotted to a road whereupon it leaped into a gallop, dragging the helpless Rendler behind. The out-of-control animal ran down a rocky road reportedly from a quarter to a half mile before a neighbor reigned it in. By then, Rendler was dead from a skull fracture.
Every mention of him found in newspaper articles available online spells his surname "Rendler." It appears that his children changed it to "Randler" as some of them are buried with that spelling. [Biography information provided by Find A Grave contributor Dennis Brandt]
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three in Lancaster October 2, 1861, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. K, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Captured at the battle of Chickamauga on September 19 or 20, 1863, he was incarcerated in Richmond, Virginia, where his obituary claims he was "nearly starved to death." While the near starvation is almost certainly true, the location is wrong as Libby Prison by then housed only officers. He was more likely held on Belle Isle. On January 27, 1864, he was transferred to the prison at Danville, Virginia, but ultimately was incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, then was among those relocated to the prison in Millen, Georgia, on November 11. Paroled at Wilmington, North Carolina, on February 27, 1865, he was forwarded to Camp Parole in Annapolis, Maryland. Ultimately admitted to a military hospital in Baltimore, he there discharged the service to date May 30, 1865 (May 19 also reported). He is in the company register, Bates History of Pennsylvania Infantry, and the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file as "Rinkler," but he applied for his disability pension as "Rendler."
He married Lancaster County-born Fanny Hesslet. Reports that they married in 1864 are clearly inaccurate as he was a prisoner of the Confederacy that entire year. He fathered Andrew H. (b. 11/19/66), Barbara Alice (b. 04/05/67 - married John H. Shank), Elizabeth (b. 03/06/70 - married Abraham S. Weaver), Mary H. (b. 11/05/71 - married Daniel G. Brandt), Katharine H. "Katie" (b. 10/04/73 - married Jacob R. Geib), Harry H. (b. 07/09/75), Eli H. (b. 03/11/78), William H. (b. 03/19/78), and Michael (b. 11/17/81). In 1889, he pled guilty to stealing a neighbor's chickens that he admitted he did not need and regretted having done so. The court sentenced him to a "light sentence" of three months' imprisonment and ordered Rendler to make financial restitution.
On the last day of his life, he was living "about three and one-half miles north of Mt. Joy borough," where, per the headline in the Lancaster Semi-Weekly New Era, he was "pounded to death on a rough road at the heels of a frenzied horse." Rendler had entered his barn and thrown reins onto a "restless" horse when his feet became entangled in the harness. The horse bolted, throwing Rendler to the floor. The animal trotted to a road whereupon it leaped into a gallop, dragging the helpless Rendler behind. The out-of-control animal ran down a rocky road reportedly from a quarter to a half mile before a neighbor reigned it in. By then, Rendler was dead from a skull fracture.
Every mention of him found in newspaper articles available online spells his surname "Rendler." It appears that his children changed it to "Randler" as some of them are buried with that spelling. [Biography information provided by Find A Grave contributor Dennis Brandt]
Michael Randler reportedly arrived in the United States at the port of New York on January 5, 1858, and shortly thereafter settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, although he is not found in the 1860 census there. He was a day laborer by professed occupation and stood 5' 9" tall with brown hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three in Lancaster October 2, 1861, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. K, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Captured at the battle of Chickamauga on September 19 or 20, 1863, he was incarcerated in Richmond, Virginia, where his obituary claims he was "nearly starved to death." While the near starvation is almost certainly true, the location is wrong as Libby Prison by then housed only officers. He was more likely held on Belle Isle. On January 27, 1864, he was transferred to the prison at Danville, Virginia, but ultimately was incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, then was among those relocated to the prison in Millen, Georgia, on November 11. Paroled at Wilmington, North Carolina, on February 27, 1865, he was forwarded to Camp Parole in Annapolis, Maryland. Ultimately admitted to a military hospital in Baltimore, he there discharged the service to date May 30, 1865 (May 19 also reported). He is in the company register, Bates History of Pennsylvania Infantry, and the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file as "Rinkler," but he applied for his disability pension as "Rendler."
He married Lancaster County-born Fanny Hesslet. Reports that they married in 1864 are clearly inaccurate as he was a prisoner of the Confederacy that entire year. He fathered Andrew H. (b. 11/19/66), Barbara Alice (b. 04/05/67 - married John H. Shank), Elizabeth (b. 03/06/70 - married Abraham S. Weaver), Mary H. (b. 11/05/71 - married Daniel G. Brandt), Katharine H. "Katie" (b. 10/04/73 - married Jacob R. Geib), Harry H. (b. 07/09/75), Eli H. (b. 03/11/78), William H. (b. 03/19/78), and Michael (b. 11/17/81). In 1889, he pled guilty to stealing a neighbor's chickens that he admitted he did not need and regretted having done so. The court sentenced him to a "light sentence" of three months' imprisonment and ordered Rendler to make financial restitution.
On the last day of his life, he was living "about three and one-half miles north of Mt. Joy borough," where, per the headline in the Lancaster Semi-Weekly New Era, he was "pounded to death on a rough road at the heels of a frenzied horse." Rendler had entered his barn and thrown reins onto a "restless" horse when his feet became entangled in the harness. The horse bolted, throwing Rendler to the floor. The animal trotted to a road whereupon it leaped into a gallop, dragging the helpless Rendler behind. The out-of-control animal ran down a rocky road reportedly from a quarter to a half mile before a neighbor reigned it in. By then, Rendler was dead from a skull fracture.
Every mention of him found in newspaper articles available online spells his surname "Rendler." It appears that his children changed it to "Randler" as some of them are buried with that spelling. [Biography information provided by Find A Grave contributor Dennis Brandt]
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three in Lancaster October 2, 1861, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. K, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Captured at the battle of Chickamauga on September 19 or 20, 1863, he was incarcerated in Richmond, Virginia, where his obituary claims he was "nearly starved to death." While the near starvation is almost certainly true, the location is wrong as Libby Prison by then housed only officers. He was more likely held on Belle Isle. On January 27, 1864, he was transferred to the prison at Danville, Virginia, but ultimately was incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, then was among those relocated to the prison in Millen, Georgia, on November 11. Paroled at Wilmington, North Carolina, on February 27, 1865, he was forwarded to Camp Parole in Annapolis, Maryland. Ultimately admitted to a military hospital in Baltimore, he there discharged the service to date May 30, 1865 (May 19 also reported). He is in the company register, Bates History of Pennsylvania Infantry, and the Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file as "Rinkler," but he applied for his disability pension as "Rendler."
He married Lancaster County-born Fanny Hesslet. Reports that they married in 1864 are clearly inaccurate as he was a prisoner of the Confederacy that entire year. He fathered Andrew H. (b. 11/19/66), Barbara Alice (b. 04/05/67 - married John H. Shank), Elizabeth (b. 03/06/70 - married Abraham S. Weaver), Mary H. (b. 11/05/71 - married Daniel G. Brandt), Katharine H. "Katie" (b. 10/04/73 - married Jacob R. Geib), Harry H. (b. 07/09/75), Eli H. (b. 03/11/78), William H. (b. 03/19/78), and Michael (b. 11/17/81). In 1889, he pled guilty to stealing a neighbor's chickens that he admitted he did not need and regretted having done so. The court sentenced him to a "light sentence" of three months' imprisonment and ordered Rendler to make financial restitution.
On the last day of his life, he was living "about three and one-half miles north of Mt. Joy borough," where, per the headline in the Lancaster Semi-Weekly New Era, he was "pounded to death on a rough road at the heels of a frenzied horse." Rendler had entered his barn and thrown reins onto a "restless" horse when his feet became entangled in the harness. The horse bolted, throwing Rendler to the floor. The animal trotted to a road whereupon it leaped into a gallop, dragging the helpless Rendler behind. The out-of-control animal ran down a rocky road reportedly from a quarter to a half mile before a neighbor reigned it in. By then, Rendler was dead from a skull fracture.
Every mention of him found in newspaper articles available online spells his surname "Rendler." It appears that his children changed it to "Randler" as some of them are buried with that spelling. [Biography information provided by Find A Grave contributor Dennis Brandt]
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