The son of Joseph & Sarah Ann (Myers) Shenberger, in 1860 he was a moulder living in Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 10" tall and had dark hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Columbia, Lancaster County, September 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service - not stated when or where - as a private with Co. I, 23rd Pennsylvania Infantry. Hit in the left side by a shell fragment at the battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) May 31, 1862, he was thus discharged by surgeon's certificate to date August 26, 1862. His name is not found in the company register.
He married Martha Wilson Bahn at Wrightsville and fathered Minnie B. (b. 11/09/64), Joseph Myers (b. 08/20/66), and Mary Francis "Fannie" (b. 02/19/72). Martha died in 1875, and he married Francis A. Lauck August 20, 1879. He lived the latter part of his life in the Masonic Home in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, and died at Lancaster General Hospital from "chronic diffuse nephritis."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Columbia, Lancaster County, September 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service - not stated when or where - as a private with Co. I, 23rd Pennsylvania Infantry. Hit in the left side by a shell fragment at the battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) May 31, 1862, he was thus discharged by surgeon's certificate to date August 26, 1862. His name is not found in the company register.
He married Martha Wilson Bahn at Wrightsville and fathered Minnie B. (b. 11/09/64), Joseph Myers (b. 08/20/66), and Mary Francis "Fannie" (b. 02/19/72). Martha died in 1875, and he married Francis A. Lauck August 20, 1879. He lived the latter part of his life in the Masonic Home in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, and died at Lancaster General Hospital from "chronic diffuse nephritis."
The son of Joseph & Sarah Ann (Myers) Shenberger, in 1860 he was a moulder living in Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 10" tall and had dark hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Columbia, Lancaster County, September 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service - not stated when or where - as a private with Co. I, 23rd Pennsylvania Infantry. Hit in the left side by a shell fragment at the battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) May 31, 1862, he was thus discharged by surgeon's certificate to date August 26, 1862. His name is not found in the company register.
He married Martha Wilson Bahn at Wrightsville and fathered Minnie B. (b. 11/09/64), Joseph Myers (b. 08/20/66), and Mary Francis "Fannie" (b. 02/19/72). Martha died in 1875, and he married Francis A. Lauck August 20, 1879. He lived the latter part of his life in the Masonic Home in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, and died at Lancaster General Hospital from "chronic diffuse nephritis."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Columbia, Lancaster County, September 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service - not stated when or where - as a private with Co. I, 23rd Pennsylvania Infantry. Hit in the left side by a shell fragment at the battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) May 31, 1862, he was thus discharged by surgeon's certificate to date August 26, 1862. His name is not found in the company register.
He married Martha Wilson Bahn at Wrightsville and fathered Minnie B. (b. 11/09/64), Joseph Myers (b. 08/20/66), and Mary Francis "Fannie" (b. 02/19/72). Martha died in 1875, and he married Francis A. Lauck August 20, 1879. He lived the latter part of his life in the Masonic Home in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, and died at Lancaster General Hospital from "chronic diffuse nephritis."
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SERVED WITH CO I 23RD PA INFANTRY DURING THE CIVIL WAR
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