Schömbs Family Letters

This page deals with letters written by Schömbs family members. Initially it includes only the letters of Corporal Adam Muenzenberger.

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Corporal Adam Muenzenberger's Civil War Letters

Corporal Joh. Adam Muenzenberger's letters are fascinating. They were written while he was fighting in the Civil War. The later letters were written after he was taken prisoner on July 1, 1863 at the battle of Gettysburg. He died five months later in a Confederate POW camp in Virginia. There are 67 letters in all. Corporal Muenzenberger, born in Undenheim in 1830, was a great-great-great-grandson of Zacharias Schömbs. He emigrated as a young man with his parents and family in the late 1840s.

The portfolio begins with the very brief history of the family in Germany and then after their emigration in Wisconsin. The translation and editing of the letters was done by Clara M. and William M. Lamers and Robert Di Bartolomeo. Only the top third or so of each page is used. Scroll down to get to the next page. In all the .pdf has 154 pages.