The son of German-born Frederick & Pennsylvania-born Christina Grim, in 1860 he was a laborer living with his family in Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio. He stood 5' 11" tall and had light hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he served four terms of service:
1. Enlisted and mustered into federal service at Columbus, Ohio, April 27, 1861, as a private with Co. H, 20th Ohio Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 18, 1861.
2. Enlisted and mustered October 13, 1861, as a private with Co. A, 7th Ohio Cavalry. Due to the colonel's refusal to merge his undersized organization into another regiment, four companies were detached as the 11th Ohio Cavalry Battalion and stationed first in Idaho Territory, then Nebraska, unusual service for a volunteer army unit not from that region. He discharged January 28, 1863, for the express purpose of enlisting with the regular army.
3. Enlisted with the regular army January 29, 1863, and assigned to Co. F, 4th U.S. Cavalry. The unit fought in the western theater, including the battle of Nashville and a cavalry foray through Alabama.
4. Re-enlisted at Nashville, Tennessee, March 19, 1864, and honorably discharged at term's end March 19, 1867, at Fort Mason, Texas, a corporal.
He re-enlisted again in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 14, 1867, and discharged August 6, 1871, presumably for disability given that the army then only recognized three and five year terms of service. His service records, however, list no reason for discharge.
He married Pennsylvania-born Nettie A. lnu. and fathered Alice (b. 06/06/74). By 1880, he was a steel worker living in Steelton, Dauphin County, where he died at his home at the claimed age of fifty-nine.
A Civil War veteran, he served four terms of service:
1. Enlisted and mustered into federal service at Columbus, Ohio, April 27, 1861, as a private with Co. H, 20th Ohio Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 18, 1861.
2. Enlisted and mustered October 13, 1861, as a private with Co. A, 7th Ohio Cavalry. Due to the colonel's refusal to merge his undersized organization into another regiment, four companies were detached as the 11th Ohio Cavalry Battalion and stationed first in Idaho Territory, then Nebraska, unusual service for a volunteer army unit not from that region. He discharged January 28, 1863, for the express purpose of enlisting with the regular army.
3. Enlisted with the regular army January 29, 1863, and assigned to Co. F, 4th U.S. Cavalry. The unit fought in the western theater, including the battle of Nashville and a cavalry foray through Alabama.
4. Re-enlisted at Nashville, Tennessee, March 19, 1864, and honorably discharged at term's end March 19, 1867, at Fort Mason, Texas, a corporal.
He re-enlisted again in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 14, 1867, and discharged August 6, 1871, presumably for disability given that the army then only recognized three and five year terms of service. His service records, however, list no reason for discharge.
He married Pennsylvania-born Nettie A. lnu. and fathered Alice (b. 06/06/74). By 1880, he was a steel worker living in Steelton, Dauphin County, where he died at his home at the claimed age of fifty-nine.
The son of German-born Frederick & Pennsylvania-born Christina Grim, in 1860 he was a laborer living with his family in Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio. He stood 5' 11" tall and had light hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he served four terms of service:
1. Enlisted and mustered into federal service at Columbus, Ohio, April 27, 1861, as a private with Co. H, 20th Ohio Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 18, 1861.
2. Enlisted and mustered October 13, 1861, as a private with Co. A, 7th Ohio Cavalry. Due to the colonel's refusal to merge his undersized organization into another regiment, four companies were detached as the 11th Ohio Cavalry Battalion and stationed first in Idaho Territory, then Nebraska, unusual service for a volunteer army unit not from that region. He discharged January 28, 1863, for the express purpose of enlisting with the regular army.
3. Enlisted with the regular army January 29, 1863, and assigned to Co. F, 4th U.S. Cavalry. The unit fought in the western theater, including the battle of Nashville and a cavalry foray through Alabama.
4. Re-enlisted at Nashville, Tennessee, March 19, 1864, and honorably discharged at term's end March 19, 1867, at Fort Mason, Texas, a corporal.
He re-enlisted again in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 14, 1867, and discharged August 6, 1871, presumably for disability given that the army then only recognized three and five year terms of service. His service records, however, list no reason for discharge.
He married Pennsylvania-born Nettie A. lnu. and fathered Alice (b. 06/06/74). By 1880, he was a steel worker living in Steelton, Dauphin County, where he died at his home at the claimed age of fifty-nine.
A Civil War veteran, he served four terms of service:
1. Enlisted and mustered into federal service at Columbus, Ohio, April 27, 1861, as a private with Co. H, 20th Ohio Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 18, 1861.
2. Enlisted and mustered October 13, 1861, as a private with Co. A, 7th Ohio Cavalry. Due to the colonel's refusal to merge his undersized organization into another regiment, four companies were detached as the 11th Ohio Cavalry Battalion and stationed first in Idaho Territory, then Nebraska, unusual service for a volunteer army unit not from that region. He discharged January 28, 1863, for the express purpose of enlisting with the regular army.
3. Enlisted with the regular army January 29, 1863, and assigned to Co. F, 4th U.S. Cavalry. The unit fought in the western theater, including the battle of Nashville and a cavalry foray through Alabama.
4. Re-enlisted at Nashville, Tennessee, March 19, 1864, and honorably discharged at term's end March 19, 1867, at Fort Mason, Texas, a corporal.
He re-enlisted again in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 14, 1867, and discharged August 6, 1871, presumably for disability given that the army then only recognized three and five year terms of service. His service records, however, list no reason for discharge.
He married Pennsylvania-born Nettie A. lnu. and fathered Alice (b. 06/06/74). By 1880, he was a steel worker living in Steelton, Dauphin County, where he died at his home at the claimed age of fifty-nine.
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