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(1833 - 1926)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He came to America in 1858 or 1859. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company A, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to the inside of his left ankle while on the "picket line" at Sharpsburg on 18 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was absent in hospital or on furlough and returned to duty about September 1863. He was captured on 10 September 1864 near Petersburg, VA and sent to Point Lookout, MD.
He enlisted there on 17 October 1864 as a Private in Company C, 4th United States Volunteer Infantry and mustered with them at Fortress Monroe, VA on 31 October. From August 1865 to May 1866 he was detailed as Company baker, and he mustered out at Fort Leavenworth, KS on 2 July 1866.
After the War
By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer and milkman in Greenfield, WI. By 1920 he was retired and living in Zion, Lake County, IL.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1,2 as Joseph Matzenberg and Metzenberg, online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also seen in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880, 1900, and 1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Minnie Bauermeister (1850-1932) and they had 3 daughters between 1871 and 1884.
Birth
05/12/1833; Mecklenburg, GERMANY
Death
08/14/1926; Zion, IL; burial in Mount Olivet Memorial Park, Zion, IL
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29582]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Former Confederate Soldiers who Served in the 1st Through 6th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments, 1864-1866, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29583]