The son of Joseph & Rebecca (Boyer) Wible, in 1860 he was a printer presumably living in Straban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, although he is not found in that census. He stood 5' 10" tall and had light hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Gettysburg August 27, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Frederick, Maryland, November 27 as a private with Co. C, 1st Maryland Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry, receiving a stipend of $.40 per day for supplying his own horse. Wounded and captured at Leesburg, Virginia, September 2, 1862, he was quickly paroled and furloughed to recover, returning to duty sometime in January 1863. Captured again at Rectortown, Virginia, January 1, 1864, he was initially incarcerated in Richmond but transferred to the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, on March 6. Paroled November 20, 1864, at Savannah, Georgia, he was hospitalized at Division No. 2 U.S. Hospital, Annapolis, Maryland, on November 28. He then overstayed a furlough and is listed as a deserter to date February 7, 1865. He returned and honorably discharged in Frederick to date December 6, 1864, the day of his formal prisoner exchange. His compiled military service records spell his surname "Weible."
After the war, he married Greene County-born Rebecca Cornelia Belch or Belsch and fathered Robert A. (b. 09/10/67) and Minerva E. (b. @1869). He worked for the Gettysburg Star & Banner throughout his adult life and died from consumption at his home on Carlisle Street at the reported but likely erroneous age of 60-5-22, which calculates to a birth date of February 20, 1838.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Gettysburg August 27, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Frederick, Maryland, November 27 as a private with Co. C, 1st Maryland Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry, receiving a stipend of $.40 per day for supplying his own horse. Wounded and captured at Leesburg, Virginia, September 2, 1862, he was quickly paroled and furloughed to recover, returning to duty sometime in January 1863. Captured again at Rectortown, Virginia, January 1, 1864, he was initially incarcerated in Richmond but transferred to the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, on March 6. Paroled November 20, 1864, at Savannah, Georgia, he was hospitalized at Division No. 2 U.S. Hospital, Annapolis, Maryland, on November 28. He then overstayed a furlough and is listed as a deserter to date February 7, 1865. He returned and honorably discharged in Frederick to date December 6, 1864, the day of his formal prisoner exchange. His compiled military service records spell his surname "Weible."
After the war, he married Greene County-born Rebecca Cornelia Belch or Belsch and fathered Robert A. (b. 09/10/67) and Minerva E. (b. @1869). He worked for the Gettysburg Star & Banner throughout his adult life and died from consumption at his home on Carlisle Street at the reported but likely erroneous age of 60-5-22, which calculates to a birth date of February 20, 1838.
The son of Joseph & Rebecca (Boyer) Wible, in 1860 he was a printer presumably living in Straban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, although he is not found in that census. He stood 5' 10" tall and had light hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Gettysburg August 27, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Frederick, Maryland, November 27 as a private with Co. C, 1st Maryland Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry, receiving a stipend of $.40 per day for supplying his own horse. Wounded and captured at Leesburg, Virginia, September 2, 1862, he was quickly paroled and furloughed to recover, returning to duty sometime in January 1863. Captured again at Rectortown, Virginia, January 1, 1864, he was initially incarcerated in Richmond but transferred to the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, on March 6. Paroled November 20, 1864, at Savannah, Georgia, he was hospitalized at Division No. 2 U.S. Hospital, Annapolis, Maryland, on November 28. He then overstayed a furlough and is listed as a deserter to date February 7, 1865. He returned and honorably discharged in Frederick to date December 6, 1864, the day of his formal prisoner exchange. His compiled military service records spell his surname "Weible."
After the war, he married Greene County-born Rebecca Cornelia Belch or Belsch and fathered Robert A. (b. 09/10/67) and Minerva E. (b. @1869). He worked for the Gettysburg Star & Banner throughout his adult life and died from consumption at his home on Carlisle Street at the reported but likely erroneous age of 60-5-22, which calculates to a birth date of February 20, 1838.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Gettysburg August 27, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Frederick, Maryland, November 27 as a private with Co. C, 1st Maryland Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry, receiving a stipend of $.40 per day for supplying his own horse. Wounded and captured at Leesburg, Virginia, September 2, 1862, he was quickly paroled and furloughed to recover, returning to duty sometime in January 1863. Captured again at Rectortown, Virginia, January 1, 1864, he was initially incarcerated in Richmond but transferred to the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, on March 6. Paroled November 20, 1864, at Savannah, Georgia, he was hospitalized at Division No. 2 U.S. Hospital, Annapolis, Maryland, on November 28. He then overstayed a furlough and is listed as a deserter to date February 7, 1865. He returned and honorably discharged in Frederick to date December 6, 1864, the day of his formal prisoner exchange. His compiled military service records spell his surname "Weible."
After the war, he married Greene County-born Rebecca Cornelia Belch or Belsch and fathered Robert A. (b. 09/10/67) and Minerva E. (b. @1869). He worked for the Gettysburg Star & Banner throughout his adult life and died from consumption at his home on Carlisle Street at the reported but likely erroneous age of 60-5-22, which calculates to a birth date of February 20, 1838.
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