Civil War
Enlisted 8-22-1862
Discharged 6-24-1865
Army Pvt
Co C 118th Reg O.V.I.
Henry J Poeppelman (37943188)
Suggested edit: Henry Poeppelman was one of the first to volunteer in the Civil War and got called into the 118th volunteer regiment of Ohio. After his first term as a soldier was over he registered himself again. He fought successfully and carried his musket till he got shot and received honors for combat. Since Poeppelman couldn’t fight at the front he wanted to help his fatherland in another way. On his (crutch) he took care of the ill and wounded. After a battle he picked up a comrade that the paramedics left to die. The brave German wasn’t satisfied and discovered that the man was still alive. Mister Poeppelman stayed in the army till the south was subjugated again. Translated from the obituary in German in The Minster Post 7/26/1912. Henry was wounded in the Civil War. He had an oblique bullet wound of the left leg disabling him and causing an extensive chronic leg ulcer and chronic rheumatism according to his pension request
Contributor: Joanne (Bruns) Sherwood (48107241) • [email protected]
Enlisted 8-22-1862
Discharged 6-24-1865
Army Pvt
Co C 118th Reg O.V.I.
Henry J Poeppelman (37943188)
Suggested edit: Henry Poeppelman was one of the first to volunteer in the Civil War and got called into the 118th volunteer regiment of Ohio. After his first term as a soldier was over he registered himself again. He fought successfully and carried his musket till he got shot and received honors for combat. Since Poeppelman couldn’t fight at the front he wanted to help his fatherland in another way. On his (crutch) he took care of the ill and wounded. After a battle he picked up a comrade that the paramedics left to die. The brave German wasn’t satisfied and discovered that the man was still alive. Mister Poeppelman stayed in the army till the south was subjugated again. Translated from the obituary in German in The Minster Post 7/26/1912. Henry was wounded in the Civil War. He had an oblique bullet wound of the left leg disabling him and causing an extensive chronic leg ulcer and chronic rheumatism according to his pension request
Contributor: Joanne (Bruns) Sherwood (48107241) • [email protected]
Civil War
Enlisted 8-22-1862
Discharged 6-24-1865
Army Pvt
Co C 118th Reg O.V.I.
Henry J Poeppelman (37943188)
Suggested edit: Henry Poeppelman was one of the first to volunteer in the Civil War and got called into the 118th volunteer regiment of Ohio. After his first term as a soldier was over he registered himself again. He fought successfully and carried his musket till he got shot and received honors for combat. Since Poeppelman couldn’t fight at the front he wanted to help his fatherland in another way. On his (crutch) he took care of the ill and wounded. After a battle he picked up a comrade that the paramedics left to die. The brave German wasn’t satisfied and discovered that the man was still alive. Mister Poeppelman stayed in the army till the south was subjugated again. Translated from the obituary in German in The Minster Post 7/26/1912. Henry was wounded in the Civil War. He had an oblique bullet wound of the left leg disabling him and causing an extensive chronic leg ulcer and chronic rheumatism according to his pension request
Contributor: Joanne (Bruns) Sherwood (48107241) • [email protected]
Enlisted 8-22-1862
Discharged 6-24-1865
Army Pvt
Co C 118th Reg O.V.I.
Henry J Poeppelman (37943188)
Suggested edit: Henry Poeppelman was one of the first to volunteer in the Civil War and got called into the 118th volunteer regiment of Ohio. After his first term as a soldier was over he registered himself again. He fought successfully and carried his musket till he got shot and received honors for combat. Since Poeppelman couldn’t fight at the front he wanted to help his fatherland in another way. On his (crutch) he took care of the ill and wounded. After a battle he picked up a comrade that the paramedics left to die. The brave German wasn’t satisfied and discovered that the man was still alive. Mister Poeppelman stayed in the army till the south was subjugated again. Translated from the obituary in German in The Minster Post 7/26/1912. Henry was wounded in the Civil War. He had an oblique bullet wound of the left leg disabling him and causing an extensive chronic leg ulcer and chronic rheumatism according to his pension request
Contributor: Joanne (Bruns) Sherwood (48107241) • [email protected]
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