Julius Jakob Englehorn

A 24 year old carpenter, he enlisted on 5 September 1861 at Fairfax, VA as a Private in Company D, 12th Mississippi Infantry.

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

He was wounded again, slightly, by a gunshot to his scalp, probably at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863 and was returned to duty from a Richmond, VA hospital on 17 August 1863. He was captured on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 13 May 1865, when he was released. He was provided transportation to Hazlehurst, MS on 15 May, the last record in his military file.

By 1880 he was a carpenter at McComb in Pike County, MS and probably moved to New Orleans between 1886 and 1889.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880; his middle name also seen as Jacob, particularly in US records. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Victoria Palestine Hales (1849-1934) in April 1867 in Pike County, MS and they had 9 children.

10/15/1836; Baden, GERMANY

07/19/1891; New Orleans, LA; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, LA