[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

Charles Bechtel Ziegler

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of a farm laborer, in 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents and 4 siblings at in Montgomery County, PA. He enlisted there on 16 September 1861 and mustered in Pottsville on 23 September as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 while carrying the Colors.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 with Crampton's Gap detail from Colonel Cake’s Official Report, as Charles B. Zeigler. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1839; Montgomery County, PA

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15358]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 31004]

« Search for another Person