Enlisted in Confederate Forces
Augustus Levine Zollinger
2nd Regiment, Missouri Cavalry, Company A
- 1862 Enlisted
2nd Missouri Confederate Cavalry, Chalmer's Regiment, Company A
- 15 March 1865, promoted to Captain
- Captured in Columbus, Mississippi
Date of Birth: 30 August 1825 in Shafer, Washington Co., MD
Date of Death: 30 Mar 1914 in Otterville, Cooper Co., MO
Burial at: IOOF Cemetery, Otterville, Cooper Co., MO
Notes:
He was baptised as Augustus Louis, and educated in Maryland. In 1847, at the age of 22, he migrated with his parents to Booneville Township, Cooper County, Missouri. He is the older brother of Johann Heinrich Zollinger, who also fought in the war. He fought in the Mexican war in 1847, and from 1848 to 1855 he took part in the California gold rush. In 1856 he opened a mercantile store in Otterville. All of his goods had to be hauled from Boonville by ox-teams He was still single in the 1850 census, and also 1860. In 1862 he enlisted with the Confederate forces int he Civil War, and on the 15th of March 1865 he was promoted to Captain in Company A, 2nd Missouri Confederate Cavalry, Chalmer's Regiment.
After the war, in 1869, he married and then formed the Zollinger-Holman company, which he ran until 1892. He also owned a 350 acre farm, and in 1894 he founded the bank of Otterville. He was registered as living in Otterville as Augustus Lewin in the 1900 census, was a bank president until 1908. In the 1910 census it was reported that he had two grown children and a grandson Augustus, then 10 years old.
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Benton George Zollinger
1861 Captured by Union troopsDate of Birth: 30 Apr 1835 in Shafer, Washington Co., Maryland
Date of Death: 18 Jan 1862 in St. Louis, St. Louis Co., Missouri
Burial at: Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, MO
Notes:
He was a Private in the Civil War, and was captured by Union Troops early in the war. He died in prison from measles in 1862 . He was a brother of Augustus Levine Zollinger.
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Jacob Elias Zollinger
2nd Maryland Battalion, Company A- ?
- 3 July 1863 Captured at Gettysburg
Date of Birth: 15 May 1843 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA
Date of Death: 1895 in Baltimore, Baltimore Co., MD
Burial at: no information
Notes:
He was recorded in Baltimore in the 1860 census, as a clerk for William Campbell. He lived in the Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers home in1894, but he was not listed there in the Baltimore census of 1900.
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Johann Heinrich Zollinger
2nd Regiment, Missouri Infantry, Company D- ? Enlisted as Private
- 3 July 1863 Captured at Vicksburg
- Sent to Cain by orders of Lieutenant-Colonel Dritts
Date of Birth: 13 April 1841 in Hagerstown, Washington Co., MD
Date of Death: 27 December 1913 in Boonville, Cooper Co., MO
Burial at: Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper Co., MO
Notes:
He was known by 'John'. He was a brother to Augustus Levine and Benton George Zollinger, both of whom also fought in the war. He settled in Clark’s Fork, Missouri in 1848. He was at that home in the 1860 census. After he got married, he lived in Otterville, Cooper County. In the 1870 census he is on record as president of the commercial bank in Boonville, and later a judge in Boonville, Missouri. In 1900 his nephew George was living with him. He owned five slaves.
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Johann Jakob Zollinger
Guides d’Orleans- Captured by Union troops when New Orleans was taken.
Date of Birth: 24 November 1818 in Wädenswil, Switzerland
Date of Death: 9 November 1878 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA
Burial at: Saint Joseph I Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA
Notes:
He came to New Orleans in 1848 from Wädenswil. He embarked in Le Havre on the ship "Glasgow", and arrived in New York on the 5th of April 1848. The 1870 census lists Prussia as his birth place, but this must have been a stop-over. His family was on record as living with a Philip Criter in Darmstadt, Germany between 1799 and 1800, long before he was born. His wife was born there.
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Levi Andreas Zollinger
2nd Regiment Missouri Militia, Company KDate of Birth: 4 September 1839 in Frederick County, MD
Date of Death: 22 Jun 1917 in Edina, Knox Co., MO
Burial at: St. Joseph Old Cemetery, Edina, Knox Co., MO
Notes:
Some sources give his middle name as Augustus. He was on record in Frederick County, Maryland, in the 1850 census, in the 1880 census in Clay Township, Adair County, Missouri, and in the 1900 census in Greenburg Township, Knox County, Missouri.
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Louis Zollinger
1st Regiment, Virginia Infantry, Company E- 30 May 1861 Enlisted as Private at Wheeling, Ohio Co., WV
- 27 August 1861 Mustered out at Wheeling, Ohio Co., WV
Date of Birth: no information
Date of Death: ?
Burial at: no information
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Reuben F. Zollinger
Cavalry, Company K, 11th Regiment, Missouri State Militia- 1 March 1862 Enlisted as Private
- 1 September 1862 Mustered out.
Date of Birth: December 1839 Frederick County, MD
Date of Death: 1915 Kirksville, Adair Co., MO
Buried at: St. Mary Cemetery, Adair, Adair Co., MO
Notes:
The census says that the death year was 1835, but the tombstone says 1839. He lived with his brother John in 1880, when he was single (widowed?). He was in the Civil War only from March to September 1862.
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William Peter Zollinger
First Maryland Regiment, Weston’s Battalion- 18 June 1861 Enlisted in Richmond, VA
- 20 August 1862 Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant
- 2 April 1865 Captured at Hatcher’s Run, VA
- May 1865 Confined at Johnson Island, OH
- 20 June 1865 Took the oath of Allegiance and was discharged.
Date of Birth: 18 November 1841 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA
Date of Death: 11 July 1899 in Baltimore, Baltimore Co., MD
Burial at: Rose Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore Co., MD
Notes:
He was the older brother of Jacob Elias Zollinger. One source gives his middle name as "Power". In the 1860 census he was listed as a servant (clerk) to a Christina. His Civil War record is extensive, he fought at Gettysburg, and was with the 1st Light Company A, 1st Maryland Infantry Battalion from 1860 to 1862. After swearing allegiance, he remained with the Union Forces, where he later became a Captain. In 1877 his Artillery Company was sent to Martinsburg, West Virginia by president Hayes, to quell a railroad strike riot. Later he became a merchant in Baltimore.
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