Week #3
I finally got my Feedly set up this week, and I also received my soldier. Working on my soldiers spread sheet’s right now, here’s a link. My soldiers name is John Knapp. He went throughout New York and Pennsylvania in order to enlist according to his muster’s. Apparently he was born in Germany according to one of the documents and I’m still analyzing the rest so I’m sure I’ll find the city later on. He enlisted at age 19, pretty young by our standards today but was about average back then I’d say. When he tried to receive a pension he complained of deteriorating vision, hemorrhoids, severe indigestion, he has a rather large hernia in my opinion how ever which is probably the most serious of his injuries. He’s only about 5′ 6″ which is average for back then but I’m about a foot taller than him so he’d be a pretty small guy now a days. Some signatures on the documents were hard to read but luckily I have plenty of translations. He appeared to serve throughout all the years of the war as well. He has one son and was married once to a woman named Mary, originally Mary Seitz. His son’s name is A.J. Knapp born in 1872. I found an error in the translation for image 2994, It translates him saying his birth was 1864, but the original document states 1842 clearly. He had 3 sons total, two of which died at age 4 sadly. Haven’t found a record of his hair or eye color yet but I will continue looking. He finally passed in December 1924.
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