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"Karl"
(1840 - 1928)
Home State: Ohio
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Ohio Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted at age 20 in Company K, 7th Ohio Infantry for 3 months on 22 April 1861, and for 3 years on 20 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the head in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam ...
struck by a musket ball in the squamous portion of the temporal bone which entered the skull and wounded the brain, producing partial hemiplegia ...
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the Smoketown Hospital near the battlefield on 5 October and was discharged for wounds there on 16 (or 19) December 1862.
After the War
In March 1868 he began receiving a veteran's pension for total disability. By 1870 he was in Warren, OH, but was in Sharon, PA in 1872, and he filed for a land grant in Firesteel Township, Aurora County, SD in 1879. He was first postmaster there in 1882. He moved to Mitchell in about 1900 and to Rapid City, SD in 1915.
References & notes
His service from Wilson1 and the Roster,2 as Charles Brielenbach. Wound and hospital details, and the quote above, from the MSHWR,3 as Corporal Charles Breitenbach. Personal details from a bio sketch on the USGenWeb by Garran Grow, family genealogists, and the US Census of 1870, 1900 & 1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bonacher (later Shafer, 1844-1921) in 1869 and they had 6 children, but divorced in 1890. He married again, before 1900, Barbara Anna Helwig (1847-1904).
Birth
03/30/1840; Rheinland-Pfalz, GERMANY
Death
06/22/1928; Rapid City, SD; burial in Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell, SD
1 Wilson, Lawrence, and the Historical Committee of the Regimental Association, Itinerary of the Seventh Ohio Infantry 1861-1864, New York: The Neale Publishing Co., 1907, pp. 621, 641 [AotW citation 13080]
2 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 2, p. 234 [AotW citation 31262]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 174 [AotW citation 31263]