Open main menu
Open main menu
F.T. Lohr
(1841 - 1904)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 20th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He came to America with his family in 1854, and in 1860, going by Theodore, was a 19 year old working in "musical instruments" living with his father and 5 siblings in New York City. He enlisted there on 3 May 1861 to serve 2 years and mustered on 6 May as a Private in Company B, 20th New York Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a field hospital on the Hoffman farm near Sharpsburg and rejoined his company from a hospital in Philadelphia, PA on 10 May 1863. He mustered out at the end of his term less than a month later on 1 June 1863.
After the War
He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in 1879 and by 1880 and to at least 1900 he was proprietor of a music store in Manhattan.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York1 and his Muster Roll Extract, online from fold3; both as Theodore Lohr. Field hospital data from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture above from a photograph kindly supplied by great-great-grandson Stephen Ternlund, MD.
He married Emilie Justine "Amelia" Rosenbaum (1854-1926) in Manhattan in March 1872 and they had as many as 7 children.
Birth
01/21/1841; Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, GERMANY
Death
01/03/1904; the Bronx, NY; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery Bronx, NY
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 20, pp. 1 - 174 [AotW citation 5307]
2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 292 [AotW citation 32234]