Isaac W. Wentzel and Katherine Knappenberger
Husband Isaac W. Wentzel 1 2
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Father: John Wentzel ( - ) 2 3 Mother: Susanna Miller ( - ) 2
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Wife Katherine Knappenberger 2
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Children
1 M Henry A. Wentzel 2
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2 M James C. Wentzel 1 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Anna Baer ( - ) 1
3 F Alice Wentzel 2
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General Notes: Husband - Isaac W. Wentzel
Civil War: He enlisted, February 20, 1864, in Company I, Eleventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, his brother, David B., enlisting in the same company, February 15, previous. Both were sworn into the service at Greensburg for a term of three years, or during the war. Company I was commanded by Captain Andrew Hooper, the Eleventh Regiment by Colonel Richard Coulter, or as known to every son of Westmoreland, Colonel "Dick" Coulter. The Eleventh was a famous fighting regiment assigned to the Second Brigade, Third Division, Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac, and with their regiment the Wentzel boys fought at the battle of the Wilderness, May 5 to May 7, 1864; Spottsylvania, May 8 to 18; North Anna, May 23, 1864; Cold Harbor, June 1 and 2; Bethseda, June 3; Petersburg, June 15 to 30; Weldon Railroad, June 22 and August 18 to 22; Hickford Raid, December, 1864, all the foregoing battles fought in that year; Hatchers Run, February 5 to 7, 1865; Quaker Road, March 28; White Oak Ridge, March 30, 1865; Five Forks, April 1, 1865.
1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 374.
2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1035.
3
John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 459, 509.
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