The son of John & Maria Frank, in 1860 he was a carriage maker presumably living in or near Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. While he is not found in that census, he is listed in the 1863 draft registration living there, although his Illinois military records claim he was from Truitsville, Pennsylvania, a place this researcher could not find. He stood 5' 9" tall and had black hair and dark eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-four and mustered into federal service at Washington DC October 24, 1861, as a private with a unit then designated the McClellan Dragoons that shortly thereafter became Co. I, 12th Illinois Cavalry. (The company and Co. H served independent of the main regiment.) Falling ill, on August 2, 1862, he was sent from Harrison's Landing, Virginia, to a Washington DC hospital but returned to duty. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer at Camp Stoneman, Washington DC, November 9, 1863, and promoted to corporal, then advanced to sergeant June 1, 1864. At some point during the latter part of 1864, he transferred to Co. E during a regimental consolidation and served as quartermaster sergeant from March 17, 1865. He honorably discharged with his company May 29, 1866, at Houston, Texas. The 1863 draft registration claims he enlisted with Co. H.
He married Elizabeth Gotschall ca. 1868 and by no later than 1870 was living in Naperville, DuPage County, Illinois. Elizabeth died March 30, 1870, and by 1880 he was living in South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, where he married Emma Margarette Mereness June 4, 1884, and where he died in Epworth Hospital from "chronic interstitial nephritis." No obituary was found in any online newspaper archive.
[Information submitted by Find a Grave contributor Dennis Brandt #47232334]
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-four and mustered into federal service at Washington DC October 24, 1861, as a private with a unit then designated the McClellan Dragoons that shortly thereafter became Co. I, 12th Illinois Cavalry. (The company and Co. H served independent of the main regiment.) Falling ill, on August 2, 1862, he was sent from Harrison's Landing, Virginia, to a Washington DC hospital but returned to duty. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer at Camp Stoneman, Washington DC, November 9, 1863, and promoted to corporal, then advanced to sergeant June 1, 1864. At some point during the latter part of 1864, he transferred to Co. E during a regimental consolidation and served as quartermaster sergeant from March 17, 1865. He honorably discharged with his company May 29, 1866, at Houston, Texas. The 1863 draft registration claims he enlisted with Co. H.
He married Elizabeth Gotschall ca. 1868 and by no later than 1870 was living in Naperville, DuPage County, Illinois. Elizabeth died March 30, 1870, and by 1880 he was living in South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, where he married Emma Margarette Mereness June 4, 1884, and where he died in Epworth Hospital from "chronic interstitial nephritis." No obituary was found in any online newspaper archive.
[Information submitted by Find a Grave contributor Dennis Brandt #47232334]
The son of John & Maria Frank, in 1860 he was a carriage maker presumably living in or near Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. While he is not found in that census, he is listed in the 1863 draft registration living there, although his Illinois military records claim he was from Truitsville, Pennsylvania, a place this researcher could not find. He stood 5' 9" tall and had black hair and dark eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-four and mustered into federal service at Washington DC October 24, 1861, as a private with a unit then designated the McClellan Dragoons that shortly thereafter became Co. I, 12th Illinois Cavalry. (The company and Co. H served independent of the main regiment.) Falling ill, on August 2, 1862, he was sent from Harrison's Landing, Virginia, to a Washington DC hospital but returned to duty. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer at Camp Stoneman, Washington DC, November 9, 1863, and promoted to corporal, then advanced to sergeant June 1, 1864. At some point during the latter part of 1864, he transferred to Co. E during a regimental consolidation and served as quartermaster sergeant from March 17, 1865. He honorably discharged with his company May 29, 1866, at Houston, Texas. The 1863 draft registration claims he enlisted with Co. H.
He married Elizabeth Gotschall ca. 1868 and by no later than 1870 was living in Naperville, DuPage County, Illinois. Elizabeth died March 30, 1870, and by 1880 he was living in South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, where he married Emma Margarette Mereness June 4, 1884, and where he died in Epworth Hospital from "chronic interstitial nephritis." No obituary was found in any online newspaper archive.
[Information submitted by Find a Grave contributor Dennis Brandt #47232334]
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-four and mustered into federal service at Washington DC October 24, 1861, as a private with a unit then designated the McClellan Dragoons that shortly thereafter became Co. I, 12th Illinois Cavalry. (The company and Co. H served independent of the main regiment.) Falling ill, on August 2, 1862, he was sent from Harrison's Landing, Virginia, to a Washington DC hospital but returned to duty. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer at Camp Stoneman, Washington DC, November 9, 1863, and promoted to corporal, then advanced to sergeant June 1, 1864. At some point during the latter part of 1864, he transferred to Co. E during a regimental consolidation and served as quartermaster sergeant from March 17, 1865. He honorably discharged with his company May 29, 1866, at Houston, Texas. The 1863 draft registration claims he enlisted with Co. H.
He married Elizabeth Gotschall ca. 1868 and by no later than 1870 was living in Naperville, DuPage County, Illinois. Elizabeth died March 30, 1870, and by 1880 he was living in South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, where he married Emma Margarette Mereness June 4, 1884, and where he died in Epworth Hospital from "chronic interstitial nephritis." No obituary was found in any online newspaper archive.
[Information submitted by Find a Grave contributor Dennis Brandt #47232334]
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