The son of Joseph & Mary (Sweigard) Knouff, in 1860 he was a wagoner living with and/or working for farmer John Enders in Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. By 1862, he stood 5' 5" tall and had dark hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Halifax, Dauphin County, August 9, 1862, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 12 as a private with Co. H, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry. He survived the battle of Antietam unscathed but was struck in the right leg by a shell fragment at the battle of Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863, but able to honorably discharge with his company May 21, 1863.
After the Civil War, he married Isabella Ellen Enders and fathered James Byron (b. 01/29/80). Joseph was a constable and auctioneer as well as co-founder of the Enders Monumental Association, serving as its first historian.
The son of Joseph & Mary (Sweigard) Knouff, in 1860 he was a wagoner living with and/or working for farmer John Enders in Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. By 1862, he stood 5' 5" tall and had dark hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen in Halifax, Dauphin County, August 9, 1862, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 12 as a private with Co. H, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry. He survived the battle of Antietam unscathed but was struck in the right leg by a shell fragment at the battle of Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863, but able to honorably discharge with his company May 21, 1863.
After the Civil War, he married Isabella Ellen Enders and fathered James Byron (b. 01/29/80). Joseph was a constable and auctioneer as well as co-founder of the Enders Monumental Association, serving as its first historian.
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