The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Monday, April 23, 2012

A Follow Up to the Bechtel Family from Reading, Pennsylvania

I was wondering how the two Bechtels ended up serving in the Confederate Army when they were from Pennsylvania.  Were they Southern sympathizers?

I did a little more research on Find-A-Grave.

Samuel Bechtel worked for the Wilmington Railroad and must have been in the South at the outbreak of war and was conscripted into the Confederate Army as a railroad guard as was his son Richard (1837-1864).

Another son, Aaron Bechtel died in 1837 and served in the Union Army as a private.  Marks Bechtel was in the 7th Pa. Infantry and died Sept. 17, 1865.

The Story of a Family At War.  --Old Secesh

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