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Federal (USV)

Private

Phillip Prinzel

(1838 - 1894)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted on Long Island, NY, and mustered in as a Private in Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability in Alexandria, VA on 29 April 1863.

After the War

In 1890 he was in Brazos County, TX.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam, as Philip Prinzle and Rungle. His wound from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Phelps Prinzel. Personal details from the US Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War (1890). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1838; 08/28/1838, GERMANY

Death

08/13/1894; Bryan, TX; burial in Bryan City Cemetery, Bryan, TX