Comments on: Interview: Joseph Reinhart, “A German Hurrah!”

By: Joe Reinhart

Joe Reinhart — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:43:32 +0000

Donald
The 82nd Illinois was in the Army of the Potomac in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg but moved west late in 1863 when its corps (the 11th) was sent to Chattanooga. It later became part of the 20th Corps.
Joe

By: Donald Gallagher

Donald Gallagher — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:51:02 +0000

I was curious about them as a source. My CW ancestor was W.H.H.Kalbach of the 114th PVI from Philadelphia. When I saw that you were working on the 82nd IL I thought maybe you were looking into AoP regiments. Wishful thinking on my part. I’ve really enjoyed your books and look forward to the next one’s.

By: Joe Reinhart

Joe Reinhart — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:10:03 +0000

Donald
Christian B. Keller may have researched there for his book The Germans and Chancellorsville. Otherwise I do not know of anyone who has researched there for letters.
Joe

By: Donald Gallagher

Donald Gallagher — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:14:45 +0000

Great interview. I have been following Mr. Reinharts work. He has plunged into the story of the least understood of all the soldiers. I am excited to hear he is working on the 82nd IL. There is so little on the Eastern Regiments of the quality that Joe has done on some of the Western Regiments. I was wondering if he has tapped the German-American Society in Philadelphia for source material?

By: Joe Reinhart

Joe Reinhart — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:29:15 +0000

Susan
There were more than 1,000 Schneiders who served in the Union army plus some in the Confederate army. You would have to know the names of the military aged males at the time of the Civil War and where they lived at that time. The National Parks Service has a web site http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
where you can type in a surname and other information to see all the men by that surname who served in the army in the war. You can narrow it by Union or Confederate, by state, by branch of service.
Joe

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:21:37 +0000

Susan, I don’t know if that question is meant for me or Joe. However, Schneider is not an uncommon name, so either of us are going to need a little more to go on before we can track down the Schneider’s you’re looking for.

By: Susan Evelyn McDowell Cole

Susan Evelyn McDowell Cole — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:09:38 +0000

Do you have any information on the service of the Schneider family during the Civil War? My first husband was Raymond H. Schneider III D.O. and he served as a military physician during the Vietnam War Era. His grandfather was Raymond Howard Schneider I, also known as Tubby, and he served as an Admiral in the US Navy.

Susan Evelyn McDowell Cole

By: Robert Moore

Robert Moore — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:35:21 +0000

Good interview, Harry. I enjoyed reading it. Folks here in the Shenandoah Valley had interesting encounters with Union troops who were German. I have a couple of stories in which the soldiers would be talking amongst themselves, and yet the local civilians would understand, and make comments in return… in German. In one of those stories, some soldiers were taking a family cow, and the woman who owned the cow lambasted them in their native language. They surrendered the cow. It’s too bad, but in the last 100 years, the language has faded from this area, where, before, the area had bilingual pockets that had survived from the mid-1700s through years after the Civil War.

By: Ron Baumgarten

Ron Baumgarten — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:00:35 +0000

Thanks for the interview. I will have to check out these books–they look really compelling to me. As a German-American, I really want to learn more about this area, and Reinhart’s books appear to be a great place to start. Have you had a chance to review any of these books?