SCV
Europe Camp #1612
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Commander Achim Bänsch -Germany-:
(Commander SCV Europe Camp #1612 and Captain SCV Mechanized Cavalry 3rd Battalion Co. C -German Hussars-)
Name: Rank: Company/Unit:
Cousins:
Jacob Daniel Wisener PVT 2nd Co.F, 1st Conf. Inf.
Henry Wisener PVT 9th Reg. Conf. Inf. Co.E
William Washington Wisener SGT 60th Reg. GA Inf. Co.K
Allen Wisener PVT 25th Batt'n, GA Inf. Co.C
(Provost Guard)
James M. Wisener PVT 1st Reg. GA Cav. Co. D
Uncle:
William J. Bensch PVT 3th SC Cav. Co. G
(German
Hussars)
One of my
great-great uncles was private William, J Bensch, born in Prussia/Silesia (near Breslau) 1841 he lived in Charleston
South
Carolina.
Enlisted at Sullivan's
Island, SC,
April 5,
1862, at age 21 as a private in the 3rd South Carolina
Cavalry Co. G (German Hussars), this
company was subsequently designated as Captain Corde's Company, South Carolina Volunteers.
At the time he was taken by the enemy (Savannah, Ga., December 2, 1864) he
was a bugler.
Transferred from Hilton Head, SC, to
New York
on the Steamer “Fulton”, February 1865.
I lost track of him after transfer to NY!
Burial site is unknown.
I look for descendants! About each information I am
pleased.
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Adjutant Chris McLarren -Germany-:
I have two Confederate great-great-grandfathers:
Name: Rank: Company/Unit:
Peter Gustave Nebhut Capt. 14th TX Inf. Co. H
(Served from March 1862 until the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department in June 1865. He fought under General Taylor at the Battle of Mansfield, 1864)
Hawkins I. Brooks PVT 45th TN Inf. Co. C
(Brooks was a wagon master with the pontoon train of General Johnston’s Army of Tennessee)
Both survived the War and received Confederate pensions.
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Member Erwin Gerhard Bänsch -Germany-:
Name: Rank: Company:
William J. Bensch PVT 3th SC Cav.Co. G
3 South Carolina Cavalry Co. G (German Hussars), this company was subsequently designated as Captain Corde's Company, South Carolina Volunteers.
More ancestors: The same as "Commander Bänsch"!
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Member Bertil Haggman -Sweden-:
Name: Rank: Company:
Eskil Haggman PVT 5th Conf. Kentucky Inf. Reg.
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Member Tom Landgraf -Germany-:
Name: Rank: Company:
Andrew Landgraf PVT 1 Batt'n GA Sharp Shooters.
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Member Heinz Zenker -Germany-:
Name: Rank: Company:
William Zenker PVT 20th SC Inf. Reg. Co.H
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Member Gregory Little -Germany-:
Name: Rank: Company:
John W. Honeycutt PVT 28th NC Inf. Reg. Co.D
He died at Hazel Grove on May 3, 1863
Samuel C. Little PVT 52th NC Inf. Co. G
Died at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House May 15, 1864
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Member Björn Hnida -Germany-:
Name: Rank: Company:
Monroe Shufflebarger PVT 4 th Reg. Verginia Inf. Co.G
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Member Rene Drinkuth -Germany-:
Name:
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Nolting
Rank:
PVT
Company:
Tucker's Regiment Confederate Infantery Co.B
(Formed from the men of the 1st Foreign Battalion
Confederate Infantery - also known as the 1st Confederate
Regemint P.A.C.S.)
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Member Josef Franz Griesedieck -Germany-:
Name: Rank: Company:
William T. Miller PVT 1st Missouri Cavalry Co.C
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Member Tilo Pollmann-Germany-:
Name: Rank: Company:
Ambulance driver
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Member John W. Black -Ger./USA-:
Name: Rank: Company:
Josiah Frazier Black PVT 2nd Light Artillery Reg. SC
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SCV Europe Camp #1612 associate Member:
Member John Polo -Spain-:
(SCV Kirby Smith Camp #1209 -Florida- &
SCV Mechanized Cavalry 3rd Battalion CO D)
Name: Rank: Company:
Juan Polo PVT 21th AL Inf. Co. B
Miguel Molina PVT 5th Reg. European Brig.
(Spanish Reg.), LA Militia, Co. 6
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Member Joe Knecht -Ireland-:
(SCV Maj. Gen. William D. McCain HQ Camp 584)
Name: Rank: Company:
Adam Martin Knecht Sgt. 12th South Carolina Infantery Co. K
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Member Bob Farmer -CSA-:
(SCV JEB Stuart camp #1506, based in Philadelphia, Pa.)
Name: Rank: Company:
Perry Francis Bryant PVT 28th TN. Vol. Inf. (CSA), Co. G
3rd great uncle Pvt. Perry Francis Bryant was killed at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, Georgia, on 20 July, 1864 and is buried at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, GA.
Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans
"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the
defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and
those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish."
Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General,
United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906.
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