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Honorable Discharges – 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I – Part 5

| November 27, 2011

Today, the blog post  again continues to feature members of the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, who served the full term of nine months and received honorable discharges on 5 August 1863.  The research results presented here are based on preliminary data gathering on each of the members of the company and searches for Pension […]

Sons of Jacob Muench in the Civil War

| February 21, 2011

Jacob DeWald Muench (1805-1846) and Sarah “Sally” [Moyer] Muench (1814-1879) of the Lykens Valley area had five sons. An oft-repeated Muench family legend is that when the Civil War began, all five sons of Jacob Muench went to enlist in the Union Army.  But one son, Charles Edward Muench was sent home to help his […]