Tintype. Full length portrait showing a soldier standing in uniform wearing buff gauntlets with his left arm resting on a draped table. Written on the back, barely visible is '19[?] Jan. ?63 Memphis Tennessee.' Balthaser Knoepfel (1839-1918) was born in Germany and immigrated to America at the age of 18. He lived his first year in the United States in Iowa, and then moved to Hannibal, Missouri. However, he joined the Union during the Civil War by enlisting in Iowa in February 1862. His regiment was involved in several battles from Shiloh to Sherman's March to the Sea. Knoepfel was discharged
Tintype. Full length portrait showing a soldier standing in uniform wearing buff gauntlets with his left arm resting on a draped table. Written on the back, barely visible is '19[?] Jan. ?63 Memphis Tennessee.' Balthaser Knoepfel (1839-1918) was born in Germany and immigrated to America at the age of 18. He lived his first year in the United States in Iowa, and then moved to Hannibal, Missouri. However, he joined the Union during the Civil War by enlisting in Iowa in February 1862. His regiment was involved in several battles from Shiloh to Sherman's March to the Sea. Knoepfel was discharged from the 16th Iowa Veteran Volunteers in 1865 as a 2nd lieutenant. After the war he returned to Hannibal and became a grocer. He also served as a member of the City Council and Recorder of Deeds, and was involved with masonic groups and the Grand Army of the Republic (). The was a veterans' organization of men who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. In about 1903 Knoepfel moved to St. Louis and joined the Ransom Post, having transferred from Hannibal's Sherman Post. He died in St. Louis. Title: Balthasar Knoepfel, Lieutenant, 16th Iowa Veteran Volunteers (Union). . 1863.
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