Enlisted in the Union Forces
Adam Zollinger
Pennsylvania Infantry, Company E, 75th Regiment:3. Sep 1861 Enlisted in Philadelphia, PA Injured at the battle of Bull Run, VA
1. Sep 1865 Mustered out in Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., TN
Date of Birth: October 1820 Baden, Germany
Date of Death: 21 November 1896 Elisabeth City, Camden Co., North Carolina
Burial at: Leverington Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA
Notes:
His name was spelled "Sohlinger" in the naturalization and Civil War records. He was in Philadelphia when his son Jakob was born in 1850. He was naturalized on the 29. Sep 1856. He was a musician. He served in the Civil war from the 3. Sep 1861 to the 1. Sep 1865 in the Pennsylvania infantry, 75th Regiment, Company E. He was injured at Bull Run in Virginia, and discharged in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
He received a Civil War pension #1415997, as did his widow Caroline . He died in a Virginia Old Soldier's home. The death place is given as Eliz City, VA, but the only place on the map is an Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
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Charles Augustus Zollinger
30th Indiana Infantry, 9th Regiment, Company E- 24 April 1861 Enlisted Rank: Private
- 15 September 1861 Promotion First Lieutenant
- 1. February 1863 Resigned (health reasons)
129th Indiana Regiment, F/S Company
- 25 January 1864 Promotion to Captain
- 21 March 1864 Promotion to Lieutenant Colonel
- 15 June 18564 Promotion to Colonel
- 29 August 1865 Mustered out in Charlotte NC
Date of Birth: 9 December 1838 Wiesbaden, Germany
Date of Death: 27 December 1893 Fort Wayne, Allen Co., IN
Buried at: Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Allen Co., IN
Notes:
He emigrated to America from Wiesbaden with his parents in 1848, landing in New York on May 18th 1848. He was one of seven sons. The family arrived in Sandusky, Ohio, on May 26, 1848, and lived there until August 5th, 1849, when they moved to a farm in Marion Township, Fort Wayne, due to a cholera epidemic. Charles was expected to work with his father in the workshop, and received no further education in America. At the age of 17, he left home and lived in Minnesota for four years, returning home in 1859. He was then apprenticed as a blacksmith to colonel Whitacker in New Haven, Indiana. Charles was one of the first to volunteer in the Civil War, and joined Company E, Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. By 1864 he was a First Lieutenant in the 129th Indiana Volunteers. He fought at the battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, under General Scolfield. He also was at Shiloh, and with General Sherman in Atlanta. Due to poor health he returned home in February 1863. Once he had regained his health, he organized his own company, and was commissioned as Lieutenant-colonel, and later as Colonel. In this rank he took part in the Atlanta campaign in May 1864, and the colonel and his men were mustered out in Charlotte on August 29, 1865.
After the war he organized the town of New Haven, Indiana, and became the first president of the town trustees. In 1868 he moved to Fort Wayne, where he was the agent for the railway, and partnered in a hat shop business. In 1870 he sold all his business interests in order to enter politics. He was first elected in 1870 as sheriff of Allen County, Indiana, and then, in May 1873, he was elected as mayor of Fort Wayne.
Through re-election every two years he held that position for twelve years. During his tenure, the city hall was built, but his greatest achievement was the construction of a water system for the town. In January 1887 he bought the "Journal" newspaper, but sold it again in June 1889. He died in December 1893, and his funeral was held on December 31st 1893. All the honours of his military and his masonic order membership were present, and in the funeral cortege were thousands of citizens. His will declared that the whole estate would go to his wife, and at her death to their two daughters Alice and Mamie. Near the front door of the city hall of Fort Wayne is a plaque honouring him, and a monument of him can be found in Lindenwood cemetery in Fort Wayne.
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George K. Zollinger
21st Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, 182nd Volunteers
4th Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry, 64th Volunteers, Company B
- 20 April 1864 Enlisted as Private
- 10 November 1864 Released
Date of Birth: 11 July 1828 in Upper Strassburg, Franklin Co. PA
Date of Death: 16 November 1910 in Greenvillage, Franklin Co., PA
Buried at: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg, Franklin Co., PA
Notes:
He was a veteran of the Civil War, a farmer and a dealer in horses and cattle. He retired to Greenvillage in Franklin county around 1880. Family-search gives his name as "Zullinger", but the name was spelled Zollinger in the obituary of his wife.
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Harry E. Zollinger
3rd Ohio Regiment Music BandDate of Birth: no information
Date of Death: ?
Buried at: no information
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Henry Zollinger
103rd Regiment New York Infantry, Company B *
- 11 November 1861 Enlisted as Private (age 22)
- 26 February 1862 Deserted at Eastside, New York City
11th Cavalry New York
- 30. July 1862 Enlisted as Private *
16th Regiment, Company K., New York Cavalry *
- 14 September 1863 Enlisted as Private in Mount Pleasant, New York
- 23. September 1863 Deserted at Staten Island, New York
41st Regiment, New York Infantry, Company K *
- 3 June 1864 promoted to corporal
Date of Birth: 1839
Date of Death: ?
Buried at : no information
* There is no proof that the four entries are the same person.
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Henry A. Zollinger (
7th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I.
49th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, Company E
- 31 July 1861 Enlisted as captain
- 24 July 1862 Resigned
Date of Birth: 24 October 1819 in Baltimore, MD
Date of Death: 1 April 1870 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA
Buried at: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA
Notes:
He was a master distiller, and a captain in the civil war. His wife was on record in Baltimore in the census of 1850 with two children. In that census Henry was in Newport, Perry County, Pennsylvania, and a Charles A. Stine was living with him, operating a grocery store. In the 1860 census they are all together in Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, including his married daughters. On the 4th of May 1866 he is on record of having rented a lot in Washington County, Maryland, to a William C. Shipley and Christiana Mcabee for $20 per year.
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Henry (Friedrich Heinrich Christian) Zollinger
30th Indiana Infantry, Company D (Origin: Allen Co.)
- 24 September 1861 Enlisted Rank: Private
- 25. December 1861 4th Cavalry, Company G
11th Battery, Indiana Light Infantry, Company D
- 23 August 1862 Enlisted
- 30. June 1863 Mustered out, Rank Private
4th Regiment US Cavalry, Regular Army
- 2 December 1863 Enlisted. Rank Private
- 3 August 1865 Mustered out, New York Hospital
Date of Birth: 18 April 1841 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Date of Death: 13 December 1907 in Fort Wayne, Allen Co., IN
Buried at: Odd Fellows Cemetery, New Haven, Allen Co., IN
Notes:
He was another brother of Charles A. Zollinger, and was known by 'Henry'. He was born in Germany, and with his parents he came to the USA in 1848, and arrived in Marion township, Indiana in the summer of 1850. He served with the Indiana 11th Battery during the Civil War, when he marched with General Sherman. He was held as prisoner in Chattanooga, and was mustered out in July 1865. After the war he became a farmer and turner. He owned the H. C. Zollinger lumber mill and chair factory. He was a trustee for Adams Township for six years, and the postmaster from 1876 to 1881. He attended St. Johns Reformed church in Fort Wayne.
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Jakob Zollinger
11th Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry
- 23 December 1863 Enlisted as Private. (Age 26, born Swiss)
- August 1864 Died from illness, Washington D.C.
Date of Birth: 1837 in Switzerland
Date of Death: August 1864 in Washington D.C.
Buried at: no information
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James (Jacob) Zollinger
4th Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry, 64th Volunteers, Company B
- 7 March 1864 Enlisted as Private
- 5 July 1865 Mustered out in Lynchburg, VA
Date of Birth: 10 March 1846 in Jacktown, Westmoreland Co., PA
Date of Death: 7 November 1920 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA
Buried at: Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA
Notes:
He was a farmer known by 'James'. He enlisted on the 7th of March 1864 in Fayetteville, Pennsylvania, saying that he was born on the 10th of March 1846, but his pension states 1847. In the civil war he was with the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry regiment, Company B as a private. He was discharged on the 1st of July1865 in Lynchburg, Virginia.
He was on record in Manchester in 1866, in Wilkinsburg from 1868 to 1878, and in Pittsburgh as a street-car conductor, and from 1883 to 1910 in Pittsburgh as a city dispatcher. He was living in Lawrenceville in 1870. In 1891 he married a second time, and was living on Foster Street in Pittsburgh in 1900. He was granted a Civil War pension on the 10th of March 1913 of $30 per month for him and $ 6 per month for his minor son. In the 1920 census he is indicated as a brother to Josina, living with her in Pittsburgh.
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Jeremiah R. Zollinger
28th Iowa Infantry Rank Sergeant - 5 August 1862 Enlisted in Newton, Jasper Co., IA
- 31 July 1865 Mustered out Savannah, Chatham Co., GA
Date of Birth: 27 December 1829 Hagerstown, Washington Co., MD
Date of Death: 24 February 1895 Newton, Jasper Co., IA
Buried at: Union Cemetery, Newton, Jasper Co., IA
Notes:
He went by the name 'Jerry'. He was born in a rural area near Hagerstown, Maryland, and the family moved first to Ohio, and then to Indiana, but by 1848 he was back in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. In the 1850 census he was living in Washington Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, with a Sam Ott. In 1857, on the way back to Iowa, he was snowbound in Mount Morris, Illinois, and then decided to stay there for two years with his brother Jacob. He enlisted as a Private in August 1862 in Company K under colonel John Meyer, a friend from Maryland. He fought at Vicksburg, and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in the 28th Iowa Regiment. He fought from Winchester, Virginia, to Savannah, Georgia. He was shot in the head during the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and became disabled. He was mustered out in August 1865 in Newborn, North Carolina. After the war he was a carpenter and a contractor. In Jasper County, Iowa, he owned a grocery business, and was sheriff for three terms until 1879. In 1880 he opened a store in Newton, and in 1895 he was killed in a store robbery by an unknown man with a big club.
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Johann Ferdinand Zollinger
Utah Volunteers- not activated
Date of Birth: 18 October 1829 in Urdorf, Switzerland
Date of Death: 16 December 1912 in Providence, Cache Co., UT
Buried at: Providence City Cemetery, Providence, Cache Co., UT
Notes:
He was known by 'Ferdi'. He brought his fiancee along for the journey to the USA, and during a delay in the port of Le Havre they married. He arrived with his family on the ship “Wendermin” in New York on the 8th of July 1862. He enlisted in 1865 in the Utah volunteers, but saw no action.
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John C. Zollinger
65th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company K- 3 October 1861 Enlisted in Sanduski, Erie Co., OH
- 23 February 1865 rank of First Lieutenant
- 24 December 1865 mustered out in Victoria, TX
Date of Birth: 10 October 1841 in Sanduski, Erie Co., OH
Date of Death: 26 October 1924 in Sanduski, Erie Co., OH
Buried at: Oakland Cemetery, Sandusky, Erie Co., OH
Notes:
The 1900 Sandusky, Ohio, census says that he was born in September 1841. He joined the military on the 3rd of October 1861 at age 19. At age 23, on the 23rd of February 1865, he was made a 1st lieutenant, Company K, 6th Ohio Regiment. He was a captain with Company G of the 65th Ohio infantry, and fought at Shiloh, Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, Atlanta and Nashville. He was discharged on Christmas day in 1865 in Texas. After the war he had a business making lime, and in 1867 he owned a brick kiln and a dry goods business. These he later sold, and then started a fish business. From 1875 to 1877 he was a councilman, and in 1881 he became a director of the Sandusky street railroad . He later owned an insurance agent business with John McKelvey.
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John R. Zollinger
112th Volunteers Pennsylvania Infantry29th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Company E
July 1864 wounded at the siege of Petersburg, VA
Date of Birth: 29 April 1847 Carlisle, Cumberland Co., PA
Date of Death: 22 April 1905 Port Byron, Rock Island Co., IL
Buried at: Oak Grove Cemetery, Port Byron, Rock Island Co., IL
Notes:
In the Civil War he was part of 29th Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry, Company E. In July 1864 he was wounded at the siege of Petersburg, Virginia. He later became a house painter, and worked until 1870, when he became too ill to continue to paint. In 1878 he was appointed as post master of Port Byron, Illinois. He was there in the 1870 and 1880 census.
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Joseph Zollinger
3rd Regiment Wisconsin Cavalry, Company G- 23 November 1861 Enlisted as Private in Wausau, Marahton Co., WI
- 3 December 1862 deserted
- 8 September 1865 Mustered out
Date of Birth: 1825 in Poland
Date of Death: ? in LaCrosse, Wisconsin
Buried at: no information
Notes:
He must have arrived in the USA before 1864, likely from Poland, and is on record as a private in the civil war in the 3rd Wisconsin Regiment, Buffalo County, Company HGA.
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Julius Zollinger
4th Regiment, Indiana Company I Date of Birth: No informationDate of Death: ?
Buried at: no information
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Louis (Heinrich Christian Ludwig) Zollinger
155th Indiana Regiment, Company D, Rank PrivateDate of Birth: 8 May 1847 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Date of Death: 13 August 1922 Fort Wayne, Allen Co., Indiana
Buried at: Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Allen Co., IN
Notes:
He was another brother of Charles A. Zollinger who fought in the Civil War. He was a blacksmith, and lived in Fort Wayne at the time of his brother Charles' death in December 1893, but later he moved to New York.
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Louis Frederick Zollinger
1st Regiment, Pennsylvania Provisional Cavalry, Company C127th Regiment Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Unit, Company A
- 26 July 1862 Enlisted as Corporal
- 8 May 1863 Mustered out
- 4 February 1864 Enlisted as Commissary Sergeant
- 13 July 1865 Mustered out in Cloud’s Mill, VA
Date of Birth: 11 February 1840 in Lebanon, Lebanon Co., PA
Date of Death: 1923 in Columbia, Lancaster Co., PA
Buried at: no information
Notes:
His name was spelled "Solinger" in 1784 at the Salem Evangelical Church in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He was a civil war sergeant in company A, 127th Regiment, Dauphin County, from the 26 of July 1862 to the 8 of May 1863. He is on record in Mechanicsburg for the 1880 census, and in 1886 he was a member on Zinn Post #15 of G.A.R. in Mechanicsburg. He died at his son Frederick's home in Columbia, Pennsylvania.
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Louis Luke Zollinger
123rd regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, Company B- 7. August 1862 Enlisted as Private
- 13 May 1863 Mustered out
Date of Birth: 6 January 1841 in Hempfield, Lancaster Co., PA
Date of Death: 17 November 1932 in Wampum, Lawrence Co., PA
Buried at: Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA
Notes:
He was known by 'Cillinder', a nickname that was given to him by brother William. On the 7th of August 1862, while employed in the family brickyard, he enlisted in Wheeling as a private in the Civil War with the 1st Virginia Regiment. He then transferred to the Pennsylvania 123rd Volunteers, Company B, where he served with the Army of the Potomac until 13 May 1863. He saw action at Rich Mountain, Philippi, Anthodium, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
After the war, in 1880, he started his own brick making business with his brother John in Brushton, near Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, from which he retired in 1897. His pension application was signed on the 24th of January 1902 by John Zollinger, J. T. Jones and William R. Alderman. He received a $75 army pension beginning on April 10, 1915.
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Moritz Zollinger
15th Regiment, New York Heavy Artillery, Company K- 2 December 1863 Enlisted, Rank Private
- 3 August 1865 Mustered out from a New York hospital
Date of Birth: 5 July 1833 in Weiterdingen, Germany
Date of Death: 1895 in Queens, New York
Buried at: no information
Notes:
He arrived in New York from Bremen on the ship "Republic" on the 12th of September 1863. He was 22 years old, alone, and a butcher by trade. Another source spells his name "Maurice".
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Morris (Jakob Moritz) Zollinger
30th Indiana Infantry, Company D (Origin: Allen Co.)- 24 September 1861, Enlisted Rank: Private
- 25. December 1862 4th Cavalry, Company G
4th Regiment US Cavalry, Regular Army
- 2 December 1863, Enlisted. Rank Private
- 3 August 1865 Mustered out, New York Hospital
Date of Birth: 26 February 1844 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Date of Death: 2 May 1914 in Topeka, Shawnee Co., KS
Buried at: Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Allen Co., IN
Notes:
He was the younger brother of Charles A. Zollinger of Fort Wayne, and he also fought in the Civil War. He received a $4 per month pension from a war injury, beginning in April 1880. After the war he was a Penn railroad engineer, and later in life began making steam-run water pumps in Fort Wayne. He installed Chicago's water system, and in May 1887 he moved to Topeka, Kansas, where he installed the city water works and ran it until his retirement. Moritz was his original German name, which he anglicized to 'Morris'.
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Napoleon G. B. Zollinger
31st Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Company J- 28. November 1862 Enlisted in Mineral Point, Iowa Co., WI
- 8. July 1865 Mustered out Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY
Date of Birth: 18 November 1845 in Louiston, Indiana
Date of Death: 15 June 1922 Trinidad, Las Animas Co., CO
Buried at: Fairview Cemetery, Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., NM
Notes:
He marched to the sea with General Sherman when he was 17, and he was a private in Company J, 31st Wisconsin Infantry. After the war he became a farmer in Waldwick, Iowa County, Wisconsin, and was there in the 1900 census. In 1905 he moved to Burlington, Kit Carson county, Colorado, where he received a land grant from President Taft, as did his sons James and Thad in 1909. The 1910 census says that he had eight children, six of them living. He died from pneumonia while on a train at Trinidad, Colorado, going from Burlington, Colorado to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to be with daughter Essie Davis.
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81st Regiment, Pennsylvania infantry, Company G, K- 2 March 1864 Enlisted as private
- 12 May 1864 Missing in Action at the battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA
Date of Birth: 1842 in Lucerne County, PA
Date of Death: 12 May 1864 Spotsylvania Courthouse, Spotsylvania Co., VA
Buried at: no information
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Reuben G. Zollinger
Wisconsin UnitDate of Birth: 1836 in Poland
Date of Death: 1868 in Denver, Arapahoe Co., CO
Buried at: no information
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- 24 March 1864 Enlisted in Wilkinsburg, Allegheny Co., PA as a Private
- 29 May 1865 Mustered out.
Date of Birth: 11 August 1843 in Hempfield, Lancaster Co., PA
Date of Death: 1897 Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA
Buried at:: Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA
Notes:
He quit school at 10 years old and went to work in the brickyard. He enlisted in the Civil War from Wilkinsburg on the 22nd of September 1864, and was a private in the 97th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company B, 105th Infantry Regiment. He served in Baltimore under Captain W. R. Jones. He stood guard over president Lincoln's body while it lay in state. He was discharged on the 30th of May 1865, and lived for 4 years in Macon County, Missouri, before returning to Pittsburgh. He manufactured bricks with his brother Louis in Wilkinsburg. He was a member of G.A.R., and built himself a large brick home.
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Samuel Zollinger
147th Regiment, National Guard, Ohio Infantry Company C- 2 May 1864 Enlisted, Rank Sergeant
- 30. August 1864 Mustered out as Adjutant
Date of Birth: 22 August 1838 in Jacksontown, Licking Co., OH
Date of Death: 15 December 1912 in Piqua, Miami Co., OH
Notes:
He went to California for the gold rush, and returned to Ohio in 1863, when he enlisted in the Ohio infantry. He was mustered out in August 1864. He was later president of "Samuel Zollinger Wholesale Grocers" in Piqua, Ohio. He was also a vice president of the Citizens National Bank in Piqua. He and his wife Dora must have travelled to Europe in 1907, as he is on record of having embarked on the ship "Teutonic" in Liverpool. He arrived back at Ellis Island on the 25th of September 1907.
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William Stuart Zollinger
103rd Pennsylvania Regiment under Colonel Clark, as LieutenantDate of Birth : 18 January 1836 Hempfield Township, Westmoreland Co., PA
Date of Death: 8 October 1876 ? Missouri
Burial at: Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA
Notes:
He was a brick moulder before the war. He was a lieutenant in Colonel Clark's 103rd Pennsylvania Regiment in the Civil War. He enlisted seven days after his marriage, came home after a year, and then was gone again for three more years serving at Anthodium and with General Grant's campaign. Later, as a stage coach driver, he was injured falling off a horse in Iowa, and died in Missouri. He gave the nickname 'Cillander' to his brother Louis.
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