he son of Philip & Rebecca (Trissler) Shreiner, in 1860 he was a jeweler/watchmaker living with his family in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 4" tall and had brown hair and blue eyes. The family is in the 1860 census as "Shriner."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three in Lancaster County May 15, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Tennelly in Washington DC June 21 as a private with Co. K, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves (34th Pennsylvania Infantry). He was immediately promoted to corporal, then later to sergeant, date as yet unknown. Wounded and captured at the battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, he was incarcerated in Richmond, Virginia, where he died likely from his injuries, although the Federal army death register claims he died from an unspecified disease.
It is likely that his Lancaster County grave is a cenotaph.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three in Lancaster County May 15, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Tennelly in Washington DC June 21 as a private with Co. K, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves (34th Pennsylvania Infantry). He was immediately promoted to corporal, then later to sergeant, date as yet unknown. Wounded and captured at the battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, he was incarcerated in Richmond, Virginia, where he died likely from his injuries, although the Federal army death register claims he died from an unspecified disease.
It is likely that his Lancaster County grave is a cenotaph.
he son of Philip & Rebecca (Trissler) Shreiner, in 1860 he was a jeweler/watchmaker living with his family in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 4" tall and had brown hair and blue eyes. The family is in the 1860 census as "Shriner."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three in Lancaster County May 15, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Tennelly in Washington DC June 21 as a private with Co. K, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves (34th Pennsylvania Infantry). He was immediately promoted to corporal, then later to sergeant, date as yet unknown. Wounded and captured at the battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, he was incarcerated in Richmond, Virginia, where he died likely from his injuries, although the Federal army death register claims he died from an unspecified disease.
It is likely that his Lancaster County grave is a cenotaph.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three in Lancaster County May 15, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Tennelly in Washington DC June 21 as a private with Co. K, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves (34th Pennsylvania Infantry). He was immediately promoted to corporal, then later to sergeant, date as yet unknown. Wounded and captured at the battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, he was incarcerated in Richmond, Virginia, where he died likely from his injuries, although the Federal army death register claims he died from an unspecified disease.
It is likely that his Lancaster County grave is a cenotaph.
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