NOTE: The bio below is from the original posting. It is questionable although it could be accurate. Read my comments below it for further detail.
Frederick Crumlich was christened 18 Mar 1821 at St Johns Evan. Lutheran Church in Shiremanstown, Pa. His parents: Frederick and Elizabeth Crumlich. He married on 25 June 1843 to Esther Ann Bell (Burial in Fileys Lutheran Church Cemetery, York Co. Pa.) They were the parents of 9 children that lived to adult age. Frederick Crumlich entered the Union Army as Private in Company H, 7th Regiment of Penna. Reserve as a replacement for another man, that paid him $100.00 to serve for him. Frederick accepted the payment to provide for his family. He was captured at the Battle of Wilderness, Va. on 5 May 1864 and taken by train to Andersonville, Ga. Civil War Prison. Frederick was a tall large build man with reddish brown hair, and blue eyes. He could read and write and sent letters home to his family as well as giving a list of his wife and children's names to this prison camp. He died from scorbutus 6 months after his capture. Frederick was dearly loved and never forgotten by his family, he is my great great grandfather.
Listed on Andersonville Cemetery records as Frederick Sebascus Cromleigh.
Problems:
1. The company register for Co, H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves (36th Pennsylvania Infantry) does list a Frederick Cromleigh but contains no enlistment, muster, end-of-service data, or even his age.
2. The Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file and Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers contain a record for apparently the same man but contain no more data than the company register except to say that he was missing in action at the battle of the Wilderness.
3. Further confusing the issue is his wife's widow's pension application that claims he served with Co. F. Nothing corroborates that.
4. Regarding the statement in the above bio that Andersonville death records list a Frederick Sebascus Cromleigh, that is not quite true. He is is actually listed as "F. Sebascus Cromleigh" and the tombstone contains "F. S. Cromleigh."
5. There was another man who also served with Co. H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves, named Sebascus Cromleigh, who is listed in Bates as having died at Andersonville. That is definitively NOT true. Sebascus Cromleigh died June 5, 1929, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This gives every appearance of a conflation of two different men with similar names and makes everything suspect.
If I may assume there was a Frederick Cromleigh or Crumlich who died at Andersonville with Co. H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves, and were permitted to make an educated guess - and that is all that it can be - it appears that Frederick Crumlich enlisted as a substitute sometime during the spring of 1864 and joined his regiment very shortly before it entered into battle at the Wilderness and in the rush of events, his name was never placed on the muster roll.
I will eventually read his wife's widow's pension file (which theoretically should be on Fold3.com but isn't) and revisit this post. She did get her pension, so someone at the War Department apparently found something to corroborate her late husband's military service.
Frederick Crumlich was christened 18 Mar 1821 at St Johns Evan. Lutheran Church in Shiremanstown, Pa. His parents: Frederick and Elizabeth Crumlich. He married on 25 June 1843 to Esther Ann Bell (Burial in Fileys Lutheran Church Cemetery, York Co. Pa.) They were the parents of 9 children that lived to adult age. Frederick Crumlich entered the Union Army as Private in Company H, 7th Regiment of Penna. Reserve as a replacement for another man, that paid him $100.00 to serve for him. Frederick accepted the payment to provide for his family. He was captured at the Battle of Wilderness, Va. on 5 May 1864 and taken by train to Andersonville, Ga. Civil War Prison. Frederick was a tall large build man with reddish brown hair, and blue eyes. He could read and write and sent letters home to his family as well as giving a list of his wife and children's names to this prison camp. He died from scorbutus 6 months after his capture. Frederick was dearly loved and never forgotten by his family, he is my great great grandfather.
Listed on Andersonville Cemetery records as Frederick Sebascus Cromleigh.
Problems:
1. The company register for Co, H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves (36th Pennsylvania Infantry) does list a Frederick Cromleigh but contains no enlistment, muster, end-of-service data, or even his age.
2. The Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file and Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers contain a record for apparently the same man but contain no more data than the company register except to say that he was missing in action at the battle of the Wilderness.
3. Further confusing the issue is his wife's widow's pension application that claims he served with Co. F. Nothing corroborates that.
4. Regarding the statement in the above bio that Andersonville death records list a Frederick Sebascus Cromleigh, that is not quite true. He is is actually listed as "F. Sebascus Cromleigh" and the tombstone contains "F. S. Cromleigh."
5. There was another man who also served with Co. H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves, named Sebascus Cromleigh, who is listed in Bates as having died at Andersonville. That is definitively NOT true. Sebascus Cromleigh died June 5, 1929, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This gives every appearance of a conflation of two different men with similar names and makes everything suspect.
If I may assume there was a Frederick Cromleigh or Crumlich who died at Andersonville with Co. H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves, and were permitted to make an educated guess - and that is all that it can be - it appears that Frederick Crumlich enlisted as a substitute sometime during the spring of 1864 and joined his regiment very shortly before it entered into battle at the Wilderness and in the rush of events, his name was never placed on the muster roll.
I will eventually read his wife's widow's pension file (which theoretically should be on Fold3.com but isn't) and revisit this post. She did get her pension, so someone at the War Department apparently found something to corroborate her late husband's military service.
NOTE: The bio below is from the original posting. It is questionable although it could be accurate. Read my comments below it for further detail.
Frederick Crumlich was christened 18 Mar 1821 at St Johns Evan. Lutheran Church in Shiremanstown, Pa. His parents: Frederick and Elizabeth Crumlich. He married on 25 June 1843 to Esther Ann Bell (Burial in Fileys Lutheran Church Cemetery, York Co. Pa.) They were the parents of 9 children that lived to adult age. Frederick Crumlich entered the Union Army as Private in Company H, 7th Regiment of Penna. Reserve as a replacement for another man, that paid him $100.00 to serve for him. Frederick accepted the payment to provide for his family. He was captured at the Battle of Wilderness, Va. on 5 May 1864 and taken by train to Andersonville, Ga. Civil War Prison. Frederick was a tall large build man with reddish brown hair, and blue eyes. He could read and write and sent letters home to his family as well as giving a list of his wife and children's names to this prison camp. He died from scorbutus 6 months after his capture. Frederick was dearly loved and never forgotten by his family, he is my great great grandfather.
Listed on Andersonville Cemetery records as Frederick Sebascus Cromleigh.
Problems:
1. The company register for Co, H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves (36th Pennsylvania Infantry) does list a Frederick Cromleigh but contains no enlistment, muster, end-of-service data, or even his age.
2. The Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file and Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers contain a record for apparently the same man but contain no more data than the company register except to say that he was missing in action at the battle of the Wilderness.
3. Further confusing the issue is his wife's widow's pension application that claims he served with Co. F. Nothing corroborates that.
4. Regarding the statement in the above bio that Andersonville death records list a Frederick Sebascus Cromleigh, that is not quite true. He is is actually listed as "F. Sebascus Cromleigh" and the tombstone contains "F. S. Cromleigh."
5. There was another man who also served with Co. H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves, named Sebascus Cromleigh, who is listed in Bates as having died at Andersonville. That is definitively NOT true. Sebascus Cromleigh died June 5, 1929, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This gives every appearance of a conflation of two different men with similar names and makes everything suspect.
If I may assume there was a Frederick Cromleigh or Crumlich who died at Andersonville with Co. H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves, and were permitted to make an educated guess - and that is all that it can be - it appears that Frederick Crumlich enlisted as a substitute sometime during the spring of 1864 and joined his regiment very shortly before it entered into battle at the Wilderness and in the rush of events, his name was never placed on the muster roll.
I will eventually read his wife's widow's pension file (which theoretically should be on Fold3.com but isn't) and revisit this post. She did get her pension, so someone at the War Department apparently found something to corroborate her late husband's military service.
Frederick Crumlich was christened 18 Mar 1821 at St Johns Evan. Lutheran Church in Shiremanstown, Pa. His parents: Frederick and Elizabeth Crumlich. He married on 25 June 1843 to Esther Ann Bell (Burial in Fileys Lutheran Church Cemetery, York Co. Pa.) They were the parents of 9 children that lived to adult age. Frederick Crumlich entered the Union Army as Private in Company H, 7th Regiment of Penna. Reserve as a replacement for another man, that paid him $100.00 to serve for him. Frederick accepted the payment to provide for his family. He was captured at the Battle of Wilderness, Va. on 5 May 1864 and taken by train to Andersonville, Ga. Civil War Prison. Frederick was a tall large build man with reddish brown hair, and blue eyes. He could read and write and sent letters home to his family as well as giving a list of his wife and children's names to this prison camp. He died from scorbutus 6 months after his capture. Frederick was dearly loved and never forgotten by his family, he is my great great grandfather.
Listed on Andersonville Cemetery records as Frederick Sebascus Cromleigh.
Problems:
1. The company register for Co, H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves (36th Pennsylvania Infantry) does list a Frederick Cromleigh but contains no enlistment, muster, end-of-service data, or even his age.
2. The Pennsylvania Archives' ARIAS file and Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers contain a record for apparently the same man but contain no more data than the company register except to say that he was missing in action at the battle of the Wilderness.
3. Further confusing the issue is his wife's widow's pension application that claims he served with Co. F. Nothing corroborates that.
4. Regarding the statement in the above bio that Andersonville death records list a Frederick Sebascus Cromleigh, that is not quite true. He is is actually listed as "F. Sebascus Cromleigh" and the tombstone contains "F. S. Cromleigh."
5. There was another man who also served with Co. H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves, named Sebascus Cromleigh, who is listed in Bates as having died at Andersonville. That is definitively NOT true. Sebascus Cromleigh died June 5, 1929, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This gives every appearance of a conflation of two different men with similar names and makes everything suspect.
If I may assume there was a Frederick Cromleigh or Crumlich who died at Andersonville with Co. H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves, and were permitted to make an educated guess - and that is all that it can be - it appears that Frederick Crumlich enlisted as a substitute sometime during the spring of 1864 and joined his regiment very shortly before it entered into battle at the Wilderness and in the rush of events, his name was never placed on the muster roll.
I will eventually read his wife's widow's pension file (which theoretically should be on Fold3.com but isn't) and revisit this post. She did get her pension, so someone at the War Department apparently found something to corroborate her late husband's military service.
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name on marker is incorectly listed as:F. S. Cromleigh
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