The son of Jacob & Catherine (Krause) Greenawalt, in 1860 he was a clark living in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He never married.
A captain in the antebellum state militia, he was also Civil War veteran and served throughout much of the war.
1. Allegedly enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg May 2, 1861, as a private with Co. F, 25th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 1, 1861. The "allegedly" stems first from the fact that the Theodore Greenawalt in the company register gave an enlistment age of twenty-eight, not forty. Whether Greenawalt purposely lied - meaninglessly so in this case - or the understated age is clerical error is unknown. Furthermore, men of Greenawalt's education and financial wherewithal tended not to serve at the rank of private, but it is extremely unusual that a man holding a commissioned rank in the state militia would have done that.
2. Following that supposed - but probably true - experience, Gov. Andrew Gregg Curtin appointed Greenawalt to the post of assistant paymaster for the U. S. Army. Sometime during 1862, he was promoted to paymaster with the rank of major and assigned initially to the Army of the Potomac. He then transferred to the Department of the Mississippi headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, and finally to the Department of the Gulf in New Orleans, Louisiana. He honorably discharged November 15, 1865.
Note: The above military data comes principally from his obituary in the Harrisburg Daily Independent. Unfortunately, Civil War obituaries that detailed in nature tend toward error and overstatement, so consider the above information to be unverified. Greenawalt's obituary does, however, offer a plausible scenario of events and avoids romanization.
He served as treasurer for Harrisburg's Hartranft Post No. 58, G.A.R. and died following a sustained illness.
A captain in the antebellum state militia, he was also Civil War veteran and served throughout much of the war.
1. Allegedly enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg May 2, 1861, as a private with Co. F, 25th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 1, 1861. The "allegedly" stems first from the fact that the Theodore Greenawalt in the company register gave an enlistment age of twenty-eight, not forty. Whether Greenawalt purposely lied - meaninglessly so in this case - or the understated age is clerical error is unknown. Furthermore, men of Greenawalt's education and financial wherewithal tended not to serve at the rank of private, but it is extremely unusual that a man holding a commissioned rank in the state militia would have done that.
2. Following that supposed - but probably true - experience, Gov. Andrew Gregg Curtin appointed Greenawalt to the post of assistant paymaster for the U. S. Army. Sometime during 1862, he was promoted to paymaster with the rank of major and assigned initially to the Army of the Potomac. He then transferred to the Department of the Mississippi headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, and finally to the Department of the Gulf in New Orleans, Louisiana. He honorably discharged November 15, 1865.
Note: The above military data comes principally from his obituary in the Harrisburg Daily Independent. Unfortunately, Civil War obituaries that detailed in nature tend toward error and overstatement, so consider the above information to be unverified. Greenawalt's obituary does, however, offer a plausible scenario of events and avoids romanization.
He served as treasurer for Harrisburg's Hartranft Post No. 58, G.A.R. and died following a sustained illness.
The son of Jacob & Catherine (Krause) Greenawalt, in 1860 he was a clark living in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He never married.
A captain in the antebellum state militia, he was also Civil War veteran and served throughout much of the war.
1. Allegedly enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg May 2, 1861, as a private with Co. F, 25th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 1, 1861. The "allegedly" stems first from the fact that the Theodore Greenawalt in the company register gave an enlistment age of twenty-eight, not forty. Whether Greenawalt purposely lied - meaninglessly so in this case - or the understated age is clerical error is unknown. Furthermore, men of Greenawalt's education and financial wherewithal tended not to serve at the rank of private, but it is extremely unusual that a man holding a commissioned rank in the state militia would have done that.
2. Following that supposed - but probably true - experience, Gov. Andrew Gregg Curtin appointed Greenawalt to the post of assistant paymaster for the U. S. Army. Sometime during 1862, he was promoted to paymaster with the rank of major and assigned initially to the Army of the Potomac. He then transferred to the Department of the Mississippi headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, and finally to the Department of the Gulf in New Orleans, Louisiana. He honorably discharged November 15, 1865.
Note: The above military data comes principally from his obituary in the Harrisburg Daily Independent. Unfortunately, Civil War obituaries that detailed in nature tend toward error and overstatement, so consider the above information to be unverified. Greenawalt's obituary does, however, offer a plausible scenario of events and avoids romanization.
He served as treasurer for Harrisburg's Hartranft Post No. 58, G.A.R. and died following a sustained illness.
A captain in the antebellum state militia, he was also Civil War veteran and served throughout much of the war.
1. Allegedly enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg May 2, 1861, as a private with Co. F, 25th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 1, 1861. The "allegedly" stems first from the fact that the Theodore Greenawalt in the company register gave an enlistment age of twenty-eight, not forty. Whether Greenawalt purposely lied - meaninglessly so in this case - or the understated age is clerical error is unknown. Furthermore, men of Greenawalt's education and financial wherewithal tended not to serve at the rank of private, but it is extremely unusual that a man holding a commissioned rank in the state militia would have done that.
2. Following that supposed - but probably true - experience, Gov. Andrew Gregg Curtin appointed Greenawalt to the post of assistant paymaster for the U. S. Army. Sometime during 1862, he was promoted to paymaster with the rank of major and assigned initially to the Army of the Potomac. He then transferred to the Department of the Mississippi headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, and finally to the Department of the Gulf in New Orleans, Louisiana. He honorably discharged November 15, 1865.
Note: The above military data comes principally from his obituary in the Harrisburg Daily Independent. Unfortunately, Civil War obituaries that detailed in nature tend toward error and overstatement, so consider the above information to be unverified. Greenawalt's obituary does, however, offer a plausible scenario of events and avoids romanization.
He served as treasurer for Harrisburg's Hartranft Post No. 58, G.A.R. and died following a sustained illness.
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