Elias Stahl

Age 22 (25?), a laborer, he enlisted at Lykens, PA and mustered in Pottsville, PA on 10 October 1861 as a Private in Company G, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

He joined his Company in Maryland on 19 September 1862 in camp on the Potomac near Sharpsburg.

He reenlisted on 15 February 1864 at Brandy Station, VA and was wounded on 10 May 1864. He transferred to Company G of the 95th Pennsylvania Infantry on 18 October 1864 (as the 96th mustered out) and mustered out with them on 17 July 1865.

By 1870 he was a farm worker at Clinton in Cass County, IN, but in 1880 he was mining coal back in Dauphin County, PA. He began receiving a veteran's disability pension in July 1892. In 1900 he was a coal miner in Monitor Township, Bay County, MI and by 1920, then 80 years old, had retired in the coal town Fayetteville, WV.

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 The detail about his joining his Company after Antietam from Captain Jacob Haas' wartime diary, extracted and interpreted by Haas' grandson James, online [PDF] from the US Army Heritage and Education Center. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870, 1880, 1900, & 1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Susanna Schell (1849-1930) in 1866 and they had 10 children by 1890.

11/19/1839; Lebanon County, PA

02/14/1921; Gatewood, WV; burial in Johnson Cemetery, Fayette County, WV