Pvt., Co. D, 165th Regt., Pa.Vol.Inf., Civil War veteran.
The son of John & Anna (Coshun) Hensel, in 1860, he was a laborer living in Franklin Township, Adams County, and stood 5' 6" tall with light hair and gray eyes. He married Elizabeth Wolf and fathered Ella M. (b. @1862), Laura Catherine (b. @1865 - married John Henry Wilson), William (b. @1867), Charles A. (b. @1868), Ida B. (b. 1870 - married a Munger), Mrs. J. K. Wilson, and Mrs. W. C. Lytle.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted in Adams County October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 6 as a private with Co. D, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863, in Gettysburg.
Allegedly, his mother and his wife cooked for Robert E. Lee when he was at Cashtown in July 1863 and tended to several dozen wounded Confederate soldiers after Southern forces left the area. In 1870, he was a butcher living in Gulich Township, Clearfield County, but by 1890 resided in Altoona, Blair County, where he was known as an auctioneer.
Dennis Brandt, contributor.
The son of John & Anna (Coshun) Hensel, in 1860, he was a laborer living in Franklin Township, Adams County, and stood 5' 6" tall with light hair and gray eyes. He married Elizabeth Wolf and fathered Ella M. (b. @1862), Laura Catherine (b. @1865 - married John Henry Wilson), William (b. @1867), Charles A. (b. @1868), Ida B. (b. 1870 - married a Munger), Mrs. J. K. Wilson, and Mrs. W. C. Lytle.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted in Adams County October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 6 as a private with Co. D, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863, in Gettysburg.
Allegedly, his mother and his wife cooked for Robert E. Lee when he was at Cashtown in July 1863 and tended to several dozen wounded Confederate soldiers after Southern forces left the area. In 1870, he was a butcher living in Gulich Township, Clearfield County, but by 1890 resided in Altoona, Blair County, where he was known as an auctioneer.
Dennis Brandt, contributor.
Pvt., Co. D, 165th Regt., Pa.Vol.Inf., Civil War veteran.
The son of John & Anna (Coshun) Hensel, in 1860, he was a laborer living in Franklin Township, Adams County, and stood 5' 6" tall with light hair and gray eyes. He married Elizabeth Wolf and fathered Ella M. (b. @1862), Laura Catherine (b. @1865 - married John Henry Wilson), William (b. @1867), Charles A. (b. @1868), Ida B. (b. 1870 - married a Munger), Mrs. J. K. Wilson, and Mrs. W. C. Lytle.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted in Adams County October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 6 as a private with Co. D, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863, in Gettysburg.
Allegedly, his mother and his wife cooked for Robert E. Lee when he was at Cashtown in July 1863 and tended to several dozen wounded Confederate soldiers after Southern forces left the area. In 1870, he was a butcher living in Gulich Township, Clearfield County, but by 1890 resided in Altoona, Blair County, where he was known as an auctioneer.
Dennis Brandt, contributor.
The son of John & Anna (Coshun) Hensel, in 1860, he was a laborer living in Franklin Township, Adams County, and stood 5' 6" tall with light hair and gray eyes. He married Elizabeth Wolf and fathered Ella M. (b. @1862), Laura Catherine (b. @1865 - married John Henry Wilson), William (b. @1867), Charles A. (b. @1868), Ida B. (b. 1870 - married a Munger), Mrs. J. K. Wilson, and Mrs. W. C. Lytle.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted in Adams County October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 6 as a private with Co. D, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863, in Gettysburg.
Allegedly, his mother and his wife cooked for Robert E. Lee when he was at Cashtown in July 1863 and tended to several dozen wounded Confederate soldiers after Southern forces left the area. In 1870, he was a butcher living in Gulich Township, Clearfield County, but by 1890 resided in Altoona, Blair County, where he was known as an auctioneer.
Dennis Brandt, contributor.
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