In 1860, he was a laborer possibly living in or near Reading Township, Adams County, Pennsyvlania, although he is not found with certainty in that census. He stood 5' 9" tall and had light hair and gray eyes. He married Nancy (Elsie in the 1900 census) Brecunier December 31, 1861, in Franklin Grove, Lee County, Illinois, where his brother Moses had gone three years before. He fathered the children you see linked below.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-eight in York September 25, 1861, and mustered into federal service that same day as a private with Co. F, 87th Pennsylvania Infantry. He deserted from camp at Lutherville, Maryland, to date May 11, 1862, then enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Adams County as a substitute for Cornelius Smith October 16, 1862, and mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 7 as a private with Co. D, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"). He was arrested November 21, 1862, as a deserter from the 87th Pennsyvlania (as noted in the 165th company register), but neither company register nor his compiled military service records provide the disposition of his case. It would have been unusual to have avoided a court-martial, but no general court-martial record was found.
It is a mystery is why he returned to Pennsyvlania to enlist. Whether he thought he would rather fight with friends and neighbors, happened to be there finalizing his Pennsylvania affairs, or had returned with his family with the intent of living there is as yet unknown. Given his first child's birth date, it would seem he was with his wife ca. December 1862, although where that was is also unknown. Wherever he may have been, it wasn't in prison.
By 1870, he was living with his family in Lee County, Illinois, in 1880 in Macon County, Illinois, and by no later than 1900 had settled in Guthrie County, Iowa.
His actual age is another question mark. His two claimed enlistment ages - at least one of them must be wrong - indicate he may have been older than shown here, although the falsification of enlistment ages was virtually the norm among Civil War recruits even those within the legal age range. The 1850 census lists him as a fourteen-year-old, i.e. born 1836, but the 1870 and subsequent censuses, including the 1905 Iowa census, conform to a ca. 1837 birth year.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-eight in York September 25, 1861, and mustered into federal service that same day as a private with Co. F, 87th Pennsylvania Infantry. He deserted from camp at Lutherville, Maryland, to date May 11, 1862, then enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Adams County as a substitute for Cornelius Smith October 16, 1862, and mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 7 as a private with Co. D, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"). He was arrested November 21, 1862, as a deserter from the 87th Pennsyvlania (as noted in the 165th company register), but neither company register nor his compiled military service records provide the disposition of his case. It would have been unusual to have avoided a court-martial, but no general court-martial record was found.
It is a mystery is why he returned to Pennsyvlania to enlist. Whether he thought he would rather fight with friends and neighbors, happened to be there finalizing his Pennsylvania affairs, or had returned with his family with the intent of living there is as yet unknown. Given his first child's birth date, it would seem he was with his wife ca. December 1862, although where that was is also unknown. Wherever he may have been, it wasn't in prison.
By 1870, he was living with his family in Lee County, Illinois, in 1880 in Macon County, Illinois, and by no later than 1900 had settled in Guthrie County, Iowa.
His actual age is another question mark. His two claimed enlistment ages - at least one of them must be wrong - indicate he may have been older than shown here, although the falsification of enlistment ages was virtually the norm among Civil War recruits even those within the legal age range. The 1850 census lists him as a fourteen-year-old, i.e. born 1836, but the 1870 and subsequent censuses, including the 1905 Iowa census, conform to a ca. 1837 birth year.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt
In 1860, he was a laborer possibly living in or near Reading Township, Adams County, Pennsyvlania, although he is not found with certainty in that census. He stood 5' 9" tall and had light hair and gray eyes. He married Nancy (Elsie in the 1900 census) Brecunier December 31, 1861, in Franklin Grove, Lee County, Illinois, where his brother Moses had gone three years before. He fathered the children you see linked below.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-eight in York September 25, 1861, and mustered into federal service that same day as a private with Co. F, 87th Pennsylvania Infantry. He deserted from camp at Lutherville, Maryland, to date May 11, 1862, then enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Adams County as a substitute for Cornelius Smith October 16, 1862, and mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 7 as a private with Co. D, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"). He was arrested November 21, 1862, as a deserter from the 87th Pennsyvlania (as noted in the 165th company register), but neither company register nor his compiled military service records provide the disposition of his case. It would have been unusual to have avoided a court-martial, but no general court-martial record was found.
It is a mystery is why he returned to Pennsyvlania to enlist. Whether he thought he would rather fight with friends and neighbors, happened to be there finalizing his Pennsylvania affairs, or had returned with his family with the intent of living there is as yet unknown. Given his first child's birth date, it would seem he was with his wife ca. December 1862, although where that was is also unknown. Wherever he may have been, it wasn't in prison.
By 1870, he was living with his family in Lee County, Illinois, in 1880 in Macon County, Illinois, and by no later than 1900 had settled in Guthrie County, Iowa.
His actual age is another question mark. His two claimed enlistment ages - at least one of them must be wrong - indicate he may have been older than shown here, although the falsification of enlistment ages was virtually the norm among Civil War recruits even those within the legal age range. The 1850 census lists him as a fourteen-year-old, i.e. born 1836, but the 1870 and subsequent censuses, including the 1905 Iowa census, conform to a ca. 1837 birth year.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-eight in York September 25, 1861, and mustered into federal service that same day as a private with Co. F, 87th Pennsylvania Infantry. He deserted from camp at Lutherville, Maryland, to date May 11, 1862, then enlisted at the stated age of thirty-two in Adams County as a substitute for Cornelius Smith October 16, 1862, and mustered into federal service at Gettysburg November 7 as a private with Co. D, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"). He was arrested November 21, 1862, as a deserter from the 87th Pennsyvlania (as noted in the 165th company register), but neither company register nor his compiled military service records provide the disposition of his case. It would have been unusual to have avoided a court-martial, but no general court-martial record was found.
It is a mystery is why he returned to Pennsyvlania to enlist. Whether he thought he would rather fight with friends and neighbors, happened to be there finalizing his Pennsylvania affairs, or had returned with his family with the intent of living there is as yet unknown. Given his first child's birth date, it would seem he was with his wife ca. December 1862, although where that was is also unknown. Wherever he may have been, it wasn't in prison.
By 1870, he was living with his family in Lee County, Illinois, in 1880 in Macon County, Illinois, and by no later than 1900 had settled in Guthrie County, Iowa.
His actual age is another question mark. His two claimed enlistment ages - at least one of them must be wrong - indicate he may have been older than shown here, although the falsification of enlistment ages was virtually the norm among Civil War recruits even those within the legal age range. The 1850 census lists him as a fourteen-year-old, i.e. born 1836, but the 1870 and subsequent censuses, including the 1905 Iowa census, conform to a ca. 1837 birth year.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt
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