Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

EWALD SCHNEIDER was born in the city of Lengefeld, Saxony, Germany, April
10, 1843.  He commenced life as a sailor boy when ten years old, sailed
in the Pacific, Mediterranean, Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea; has been
in Africa and Australia.  He came to America via the steamer "Araco" and
enlisted in the regular army; was stationed at Carlisle Barracks, and
strictly drilled for several months, and then ordered to Louisville, Ky.,
where he was attached to Battery H, Fifth United States Artillery, which
company participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Murfreesboro, and
at Chickamauga on the 19th of September, 1863, at which battle he lost his
left leg by a cannon ball, which ball killed both of the wheel horses
attached to the cannon.  He lay on the ground as the rebel infantry charged
over him, and could hear the commands of their officers at the time, and
had the presence of mind to pull the cord from his hat, and used his
revolver to twist it around the stump of his leg so as to check the flow of
blood.  This done, he received another wound--a gun shot in his right hip;
in this condition he lay upon the ground until the battle was over; was
taken a prisoner, and exchanged shortly afterward.  He worked in the
quartermaster's department in Washington City until the war closed.  In the
fall of 1867 he was made superintendent of a national cemetery at Staunton,
Va., and was transferred from there to Camp Nelson National Cemetery in
Jessamine County.  In June, 1883, was transferred to Mound City, Ill., and
remained there for five months, when he resigned his position.  In 1885 he
made a visit to Germany, Saxony, to see his aged mother.  Mr. Schneider
was married, November 22, 1870, to Miss Mattie Brown, of Garrard County,
Ky.  His only child, Ida, born in 1871, died November 12, 1882.  He is a
Royal Arch Mason.

Schneider Brown
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Garrard-KY VA IL Germany

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