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(1844 - 1914)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 66th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted at age 18, and mustered into service as Private in Company C, 66th New York Infantry on 5 November 1861.
On the Campaign
He was promoted to Corporal “for bravery at Antietam” to date from 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He re-enlisted as a veteran on 20 December 1863, and was promoted Sergeant in April 1864. Captured in action at Petersburg, VA on 22 June 1864, and paroled (unknown date). He mustered out with his Company on 30 August 1865 in New York City.
References & notes
Basic information from State of New York1, which lists him as Bernard Manheim. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the Report and extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW. Thanks also to Austin Mannheim for his birth and death information.
Birth
07/10/1844; Exin, PRUSSIA
Death
08/21/1914; Hawkinsville, GA
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 27 (for the year 1901) [AotW citation 7981]