Charles Daniel Saalmann was a captain of Union infantry during the American Civil War.
23 Facts About Charles Saalmann
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Charles Saalmann married 18-year-old Emilie Schulte, on June 29,1860, in the village of Wiblingwerde, eight miles to the northwest of Breckerfeld.
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Charles Saalmann had arrived in Philadelphia by the summer of 1861.
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Charles Daniel Saalmann was born on May 22,1866, William Gustavus Saalmann was born on November 19,1867, and Emilie Charlotte Henrietta Saalmann was born on May 20,1868.
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Charles Saalmann enrolled as a private in the Union Army on August 9,1861.
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Charles Saalmann joined the 75th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which was composed mainly of German-speaking residents of Philadelphia.
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On September 2,1862, Charles Saalmann was forced to take a 30-day leave of absence as a result of typhoid fever.
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Several men in Charles Saalmann's company were killed and taken prisoner.
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Charles Saalmann was felled by a bullet that passed through his upper left arm, partially fracturing the bone.
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Charles Saalmann lay on the battlefield throughout the rest of the battle.
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Charles Saalmann was treated in a field hospital by Surgeon Beeken, of the 75th Pennsylvania.
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Charles Saalmann was among the first of the wounded evacuated.
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On January 1,1864, Charles Saalmann was detached from the 75th Pennsylvania and was appointed Acting Commissary of Subsistence of the brigade.
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Charles Saalmann was thus attached to the Third Brigade of the First Division of the Twentieth Corps.
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On January 17,1865, during Charles Saalmann's leave, Robinson's brigade started northward through South Carolina at the beginning of the Carolinas Campaign.
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Charles Saalmann was eventually able to reconnect with the brigade in North Carolina, probably in Fayetteville.
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Charles Saalmann delivered the oration at the 1895 Memorial Day celebration in Egg Harbor City.
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Charles Saalmann measured rainfall for the federal government and issued detailed annual reports to the New Jersey Board of Agriculture.
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Charles Saalmann was a weather correspondent for the Bridgeton Evening News.
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Charles Saalmann's 'Black Rose,' won medals at regional competitions, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 and at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1878.
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Charles Saalmann erected two substantial brick and stone wine cellars on his property.
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Charles Saalmann was survived by his wife and three children.
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Charles Saalmann is buried in Egg Harbor City Cemetery in Atlantic County, New Jersey.