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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