John Karl Augustus Reinwald

He came to America in about 1846. On 29 May 1861, then living in Elk County and going by Augustus, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company G, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves.

He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862 ...

by a conoidal ball, which entered the left side of the face at the base of the nose, passed backward, and emerged from behind the right ear. He became insensible. For several hours after return of consciousness there was bleeding from mouth, ear, and eye.

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 19 September and transferred on 28 September to the Patent Office hospital in Washington, DC. He was sent on to the Ladies Home hospital in New York City on 5 October. He had lost vision in his right eye, and the right side of his face was paralyzed. His wound suppurated and he was feverish and "became pale, weak and emaciated; skin was moist, appetite poor; pulse regular, slow and compressible; the eye was lachrymose, and the mouth drawn to the opposite side." His face had healed but the wound in the back of his head was still open and oozing when he was discharged for disability on 21 March 1863. He began receiving a pension in May.

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Elk Township in Tioga County, PA.

His service from Bates,1 as Augustus Reinwald. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Augustus Rosewald, and the MSHWR,3 as a Sergeant, source of the quotes above. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Catherine Schanbacher (1845-1907) in 1872 and they had 6 children.

11/13/1835; Bavaria, GERMANY

03/19/1906; Tioga County, PA; burial in Knowlton Cemetery, Tioga County, PA