In 1850, he was a laborer living in Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He is not found in the 1860 census but is in the 1863-65 draft registration as a laborer still residing in Marietta.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Marietta September 11, 1862, mustered into state service that day as a private with Co. A, 16th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company September 27, 1862. The experience was as uneventful as it was brief. All of his obituaries erroneously place him with the 16th Pennsylvania Regiment, implying the 16th Pennsylvania Infantry, a unit with which he never served.
He died in Lancaster County Hospital where he had resided for a number of years.
Albert Spangler, who served during the rebellion as a member of Co A, 16th Pa [Militia] Regiment, died at the county hospital on Saturday afternoon of general debility, aged 61. Mr. Spangler has been an inmate of the above institution for a number of years. He has near relatives residing in the vicinity of Marietta. The remains were taken in charge by the GAR committee and will be buried Tuesday afternoon at 2:00pm. Internment in the soldiers lot, Lancaster cemetery.
Lancaster Intelligencer, 10 September 1888
In 1850, he was a laborer living in Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He is not found in the 1860 census but is in the 1863-65 draft registration as a laborer still residing in Marietta.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Marietta September 11, 1862, mustered into state service that day as a private with Co. A, 16th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company September 27, 1862. The experience was as uneventful as it was brief. All of his obituaries erroneously place him with the 16th Pennsylvania Regiment, implying the 16th Pennsylvania Infantry, a unit with which he never served.
He died in Lancaster County Hospital where he had resided for a number of years.
Albert Spangler, who served during the rebellion as a member of Co A, 16th Pa [Militia] Regiment, died at the county hospital on Saturday afternoon of general debility, aged 61. Mr. Spangler has been an inmate of the above institution for a number of years. He has near relatives residing in the vicinity of Marietta. The remains were taken in charge by the GAR committee and will be buried Tuesday afternoon at 2:00pm. Internment in the soldiers lot, Lancaster cemetery.
Lancaster Intelligencer, 10 September 1888
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