The son of George & Sarah (Finefrock) Brenberger, in 1860 he was living with his farming family in Providence Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Harrisburg July 14, 1863, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. C in the six-month organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry (182nd Pennsylvania).
2. Enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Scranton, Lackawanna County, (where a portion of the regiment was then stationed in riot control) January 5, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. I in the three-year organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry. He honorably discharged with his company July 8, 1865, still too young to enlist without parental permission, which, based on his false age declarations, he did not have.
He married Mary A. Shirk ca. 1871 and fathered George M. (b. 11/30/73 or 74), Frances L. (b. 03/11/78 - married Joseph Swinehart), Bessie E. (b. 08/24/81 - married William C. Smith), Joseph M. (b. 06/27/83 or 84), Clarence Clifford (b. 11/14/89), and William Jeff (b. 06/10/93). He died at his home from "acute myocarditis" with "acute hepatitis" a contributing factor and had been a member of Thomas Post No. 84, G.A.R.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Harrisburg July 14, 1863, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. C in the six-month organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry (182nd Pennsylvania).
2. Enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Scranton, Lackawanna County, (where a portion of the regiment was then stationed in riot control) January 5, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. I in the three-year organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry. He honorably discharged with his company July 8, 1865, still too young to enlist without parental permission, which, based on his false age declarations, he did not have.
He married Mary A. Shirk ca. 1871 and fathered George M. (b. 11/30/73 or 74), Frances L. (b. 03/11/78 - married Joseph Swinehart), Bessie E. (b. 08/24/81 - married William C. Smith), Joseph M. (b. 06/27/83 or 84), Clarence Clifford (b. 11/14/89), and William Jeff (b. 06/10/93). He died at his home from "acute myocarditis" with "acute hepatitis" a contributing factor and had been a member of Thomas Post No. 84, G.A.R.
The son of George & Sarah (Finefrock) Brenberger, in 1860 he was living with his farming family in Providence Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Harrisburg July 14, 1863, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. C in the six-month organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry (182nd Pennsylvania).
2. Enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Scranton, Lackawanna County, (where a portion of the regiment was then stationed in riot control) January 5, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. I in the three-year organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry. He honorably discharged with his company July 8, 1865, still too young to enlist without parental permission, which, based on his false age declarations, he did not have.
He married Mary A. Shirk ca. 1871 and fathered George M. (b. 11/30/73 or 74), Frances L. (b. 03/11/78 - married Joseph Swinehart), Bessie E. (b. 08/24/81 - married William C. Smith), Joseph M. (b. 06/27/83 or 84), Clarence Clifford (b. 11/14/89), and William Jeff (b. 06/10/93). He died at his home from "acute myocarditis" with "acute hepatitis" a contributing factor and had been a member of Thomas Post No. 84, G.A.R.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Harrisburg July 14, 1863, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. C in the six-month organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry (182nd Pennsylvania).
2. Enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Scranton, Lackawanna County, (where a portion of the regiment was then stationed in riot control) January 5, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. I in the three-year organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry. He honorably discharged with his company July 8, 1865, still too young to enlist without parental permission, which, based on his false age declarations, he did not have.
He married Mary A. Shirk ca. 1871 and fathered George M. (b. 11/30/73 or 74), Frances L. (b. 03/11/78 - married Joseph Swinehart), Bessie E. (b. 08/24/81 - married William C. Smith), Joseph M. (b. 06/27/83 or 84), Clarence Clifford (b. 11/14/89), and William Jeff (b. 06/10/93). He died at his home from "acute myocarditis" with "acute hepatitis" a contributing factor and had been a member of Thomas Post No. 84, G.A.R.
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