The son of Henry & Veronica Frances (Bohan) Aument, in 1860 he was a wheelwright living in Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 10" tall and had light hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in West Chester, Chester County, June 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Baltimore, Maryland, July 26 as a private with Co. E, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry). He was shot in the lower left leg at the battle of South Mountain on September 14, 1862, the bullet fracturing the tibia. Admitted to the military hospital at Frederick, Maryland, he there discharged the service either on December 5 or December 13, 1862 (both are reported). He recovered and enlisted and mustered into federal service at Lancaster April 8, 1864, as a private with Co. I, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. On October 3, 1864, he was captured during action at Moon Station near Kennesaw, Georgia, and incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia. Paroled on April 2, 1865, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, he was granted a thirty-day furlough, and discharged by surgeon's certificate May 11, 1865.
He married Barbara Wiker and fathered Alverda S. (b. 07/21/68 - married a King), Marion E. (b. 07/24/71), and Warren Wacker (b. 09/15/75). In 1883, he lived in Lancaster, Lancaster County.
Dennis Brandt
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in West Chester, Chester County, June 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Baltimore, Maryland, July 26 as a private with Co. E, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry). He was shot in the lower left leg at the battle of South Mountain on September 14, 1862, the bullet fracturing the tibia. Admitted to the military hospital at Frederick, Maryland, he there discharged the service either on December 5 or December 13, 1862 (both are reported). He recovered and enlisted and mustered into federal service at Lancaster April 8, 1864, as a private with Co. I, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. On October 3, 1864, he was captured during action at Moon Station near Kennesaw, Georgia, and incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia. Paroled on April 2, 1865, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, he was granted a thirty-day furlough, and discharged by surgeon's certificate May 11, 1865.
He married Barbara Wiker and fathered Alverda S. (b. 07/21/68 - married a King), Marion E. (b. 07/24/71), and Warren Wacker (b. 09/15/75). In 1883, he lived in Lancaster, Lancaster County.
Dennis Brandt
The son of Henry & Veronica Frances (Bohan) Aument, in 1860 he was a wheelwright living in Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 10" tall and had light hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in West Chester, Chester County, June 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Baltimore, Maryland, July 26 as a private with Co. E, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry). He was shot in the lower left leg at the battle of South Mountain on September 14, 1862, the bullet fracturing the tibia. Admitted to the military hospital at Frederick, Maryland, he there discharged the service either on December 5 or December 13, 1862 (both are reported). He recovered and enlisted and mustered into federal service at Lancaster April 8, 1864, as a private with Co. I, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. On October 3, 1864, he was captured during action at Moon Station near Kennesaw, Georgia, and incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia. Paroled on April 2, 1865, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, he was granted a thirty-day furlough, and discharged by surgeon's certificate May 11, 1865.
He married Barbara Wiker and fathered Alverda S. (b. 07/21/68 - married a King), Marion E. (b. 07/24/71), and Warren Wacker (b. 09/15/75). In 1883, he lived in Lancaster, Lancaster County.
Dennis Brandt
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in West Chester, Chester County, June 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Baltimore, Maryland, July 26 as a private with Co. E, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry). He was shot in the lower left leg at the battle of South Mountain on September 14, 1862, the bullet fracturing the tibia. Admitted to the military hospital at Frederick, Maryland, he there discharged the service either on December 5 or December 13, 1862 (both are reported). He recovered and enlisted and mustered into federal service at Lancaster April 8, 1864, as a private with Co. I, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. On October 3, 1864, he was captured during action at Moon Station near Kennesaw, Georgia, and incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia. Paroled on April 2, 1865, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, he was granted a thirty-day furlough, and discharged by surgeon's certificate May 11, 1865.
He married Barbara Wiker and fathered Alverda S. (b. 07/21/68 - married a King), Marion E. (b. 07/24/71), and Warren Wacker (b. 09/15/75). In 1883, he lived in Lancaster, Lancaster County.
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