Week 4
When I was researching my soldier, I found out that Conrad Kahler enrolled May 21, 1861 at the age of 35 as New York City as a Captain, Company F, to serve two years. He was mustered in as a Lieutenant Colonel on June 6, 1861. He was wounded in Pope’s Campaign (2nd battle of Manassas) in August 1862. He resigned in August 1863 as a not commissioned Captain; commissioned Lt-Col. June 20, 1861, with rank from May 23, 1861. And yet of the disability, Kahler was denied of pension on several occasions. Yet according to the 1870 Census in the U.S., Kahler had seven family members living with him. I found that it must have been difficult for Kahler to keep his family “afloat.”