in 1860 he was a laborer living in Conestoga, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 8" tall and had black hair and brown eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Harrisburg December 23, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Pierpont, Langley, Virginia, December 25 as a private with Battery G, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (43rd Pa). On August 8, 1862, he was hospitalized when he became "partially paralyzed," the cause of which the reporting surgeon assumed came was a spinal injury from an antebellum mining accident. He discharged by surgeon's certificate March 15, 1863, at Belle Plain, Virginia.
He married Christiana Flinchbaugh. He fathered Lydia A. (b. 12/25/65 , Leah M. (b. @1867), William Frederick (b. 11/25/75), and Martin (b. 09/15/81 - described as "simple mute" and who received a minor's pension from his father's service until his death in 1940).
Bio provided by Dennis Brandt (#47232334)
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Harrisburg December 23, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Pierpont, Langley, Virginia, December 25 as a private with Battery G, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (43rd Pa). On August 8, 1862, he was hospitalized when he became "partially paralyzed," the cause of which the reporting surgeon assumed came was a spinal injury from an antebellum mining accident. He discharged by surgeon's certificate March 15, 1863, at Belle Plain, Virginia.
He married Christiana Flinchbaugh. He fathered Lydia A. (b. 12/25/65 , Leah M. (b. @1867), William Frederick (b. 11/25/75), and Martin (b. 09/15/81 - described as "simple mute" and who received a minor's pension from his father's service until his death in 1940).
Bio provided by Dennis Brandt (#47232334)
in 1860 he was a laborer living in Conestoga, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 8" tall and had black hair and brown eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Harrisburg December 23, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Pierpont, Langley, Virginia, December 25 as a private with Battery G, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (43rd Pa). On August 8, 1862, he was hospitalized when he became "partially paralyzed," the cause of which the reporting surgeon assumed came was a spinal injury from an antebellum mining accident. He discharged by surgeon's certificate March 15, 1863, at Belle Plain, Virginia.
He married Christiana Flinchbaugh. He fathered Lydia A. (b. 12/25/65 , Leah M. (b. @1867), William Frederick (b. 11/25/75), and Martin (b. 09/15/81 - described as "simple mute" and who received a minor's pension from his father's service until his death in 1940).
Bio provided by Dennis Brandt (#47232334)
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Harrisburg December 23, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Pierpont, Langley, Virginia, December 25 as a private with Battery G, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (43rd Pa). On August 8, 1862, he was hospitalized when he became "partially paralyzed," the cause of which the reporting surgeon assumed came was a spinal injury from an antebellum mining accident. He discharged by surgeon's certificate March 15, 1863, at Belle Plain, Virginia.
He married Christiana Flinchbaugh. He fathered Lydia A. (b. 12/25/65 , Leah M. (b. @1867), William Frederick (b. 11/25/75), and Martin (b. 09/15/81 - described as "simple mute" and who received a minor's pension from his father's service until his death in 1940).
Bio provided by Dennis Brandt (#47232334)
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