The son of Jacob & English-born Rebecca or Rebekah (Baker) Reidenbaugh, in 1860 he was a laborer living with his family in Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 8" tall and had dark hair, blue eyes, and a vaccine scare on his right arm.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unrecorded age, mustered into state service at Harrisburg September 16, 1862, as a private with Co. E, 12th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company September 27, 1862.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Lancaster April 12, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. He honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Springfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00. He is in the company register as "Reidenbach."
He married Christianna Catharine Yeager ca. 1865 and fathered Nelson M. (08/31/66) and Robert Henry (b. 01/27/71). Christianna died August 31, 1871, and he married Salinda or Celinda Hollinger May 25, 1873, in Ephrata, Lancaster County, fathering John (b. 02/07/71 or 72), Albert Melville (b. 09/29/77), Hayden Eugene (b. 03/14/80), Frances A. (b. 12/02/88), and Adeline V. (b. 07/05/91 - married Herbert Raymond Krebs). By 1870, he was living with his family in Lititz, Lancaster County, and in 1880, in Columbia, Lancaster County. He moved to Indiana, date unknown, but by 1900 was living in Marion County, Ohio, where he died suddenly at his home reportedly from neuralgia of the heart.
Every census in which he appears except 1880 lists his birth year as ca. 1845, and his tombstone also says 1845, although his stated age at enlistment suggests 1846. (Nearly forty years of research has shown that nineteen-year-old recruits were disinclined to understate their ages.) His obituary in the Marion Star claims he was born in 1844 and lists his age at death as seventy-four.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unrecorded age, mustered into state service at Harrisburg September 16, 1862, as a private with Co. E, 12th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company September 27, 1862.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Lancaster April 12, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. He honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Springfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00. He is in the company register as "Reidenbach."
He married Christianna Catharine Yeager ca. 1865 and fathered Nelson M. (08/31/66) and Robert Henry (b. 01/27/71). Christianna died August 31, 1871, and he married Salinda or Celinda Hollinger May 25, 1873, in Ephrata, Lancaster County, fathering John (b. 02/07/71 or 72), Albert Melville (b. 09/29/77), Hayden Eugene (b. 03/14/80), Frances A. (b. 12/02/88), and Adeline V. (b. 07/05/91 - married Herbert Raymond Krebs). By 1870, he was living with his family in Lititz, Lancaster County, and in 1880, in Columbia, Lancaster County. He moved to Indiana, date unknown, but by 1900 was living in Marion County, Ohio, where he died suddenly at his home reportedly from neuralgia of the heart.
Every census in which he appears except 1880 lists his birth year as ca. 1845, and his tombstone also says 1845, although his stated age at enlistment suggests 1846. (Nearly forty years of research has shown that nineteen-year-old recruits were disinclined to understate their ages.) His obituary in the Marion Star claims he was born in 1844 and lists his age at death as seventy-four.
The son of Jacob & English-born Rebecca or Rebekah (Baker) Reidenbaugh, in 1860 he was a laborer living with his family in Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 8" tall and had dark hair, blue eyes, and a vaccine scare on his right arm.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unrecorded age, mustered into state service at Harrisburg September 16, 1862, as a private with Co. E, 12th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company September 27, 1862.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Lancaster April 12, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. He honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Springfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00. He is in the company register as "Reidenbach."
He married Christianna Catharine Yeager ca. 1865 and fathered Nelson M. (08/31/66) and Robert Henry (b. 01/27/71). Christianna died August 31, 1871, and he married Salinda or Celinda Hollinger May 25, 1873, in Ephrata, Lancaster County, fathering John (b. 02/07/71 or 72), Albert Melville (b. 09/29/77), Hayden Eugene (b. 03/14/80), Frances A. (b. 12/02/88), and Adeline V. (b. 07/05/91 - married Herbert Raymond Krebs). By 1870, he was living with his family in Lititz, Lancaster County, and in 1880, in Columbia, Lancaster County. He moved to Indiana, date unknown, but by 1900 was living in Marion County, Ohio, where he died suddenly at his home reportedly from neuralgia of the heart.
Every census in which he appears except 1880 lists his birth year as ca. 1845, and his tombstone also says 1845, although his stated age at enlistment suggests 1846. (Nearly forty years of research has shown that nineteen-year-old recruits were disinclined to understate their ages.) His obituary in the Marion Star claims he was born in 1844 and lists his age at death as seventy-four.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unrecorded age, mustered into state service at Harrisburg September 16, 1862, as a private with Co. E, 12th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company September 27, 1862.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Lancaster April 12, 1864, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. B, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. He honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia, at which time he purchased his Springfield rifle and accoutrements for $6.00. He is in the company register as "Reidenbach."
He married Christianna Catharine Yeager ca. 1865 and fathered Nelson M. (08/31/66) and Robert Henry (b. 01/27/71). Christianna died August 31, 1871, and he married Salinda or Celinda Hollinger May 25, 1873, in Ephrata, Lancaster County, fathering John (b. 02/07/71 or 72), Albert Melville (b. 09/29/77), Hayden Eugene (b. 03/14/80), Frances A. (b. 12/02/88), and Adeline V. (b. 07/05/91 - married Herbert Raymond Krebs). By 1870, he was living with his family in Lititz, Lancaster County, and in 1880, in Columbia, Lancaster County. He moved to Indiana, date unknown, but by 1900 was living in Marion County, Ohio, where he died suddenly at his home reportedly from neuralgia of the heart.
Every census in which he appears except 1880 lists his birth year as ca. 1845, and his tombstone also says 1845, although his stated age at enlistment suggests 1846. (Nearly forty years of research has shown that nineteen-year-old recruits were disinclined to understate their ages.) His obituary in the Marion Star claims he was born in 1844 and lists his age at death as seventy-four.
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