Soldier: Shanlaub, John [Schoenlaub, Georg Christopher] [Shenlaub, Christopher]
Regiment: 82nd. OVI
Company: D
Age: 42
Date Entering Service: November 25, 1861, at Kenton, Ohio
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Georg “Christopher” Schoenlaub died at Atlanta, Georgia on September 2, 1864. His cause of death is not stated.
Battles in which he fought:
McDowell, Va. May 8, 1862
Cross Keys, Va. June 8, 1862
Cedar Mt., Va. Aug. 9-11, 1862
Freeman’s Ford, Va. Aug. 22, 1862
Great Run, Va. Aug. 23, 1862
Waterloo Bridge, Va. Aug. 24, 1862
Second Bull Run, Va. Aug.28-30, 1863
Chancellorsville, Va. May 1-6,1863
Gettysburg, Pa. July 1-3, 1863
Wauhatchie, Tenn. Oct. 27-28, 1863
Mission Ridge, Tenn. Nov.22-26, 1863
Knoxville, Tenn. Nov. 27-Dec. 4, 1863
Resaca, Ga. May 10-16, 1863
New Hope Church, Ga. May 25, 1864
Culp’s Farm, Ga. June 22, 1864
Peach Tree Creek, Ga. July 20, 1864
Atlanta, Ga. July 23-Sept. 2, 1864
Other interesting information discovered:
Georg Schoenlaub was born in Germany in 1819. In 1847 he married Elizabeth Hendrickson, who appears to have died prior to 1860. In 1860 Georg was living with his brother Jacob and family in Richland Township, Marion County.
The 82nd. OVI had among its ranks a large number of German born immigrants. At the Battle of Gettysburg the regiment lost 181 of 312 men on the first day’s battle. Thirty-five of those were killed. Schoenlaub was just one of a few men from the Cardington area to fight in the eastern theatre of war.
The regiment lost during service 16 Officers and 122 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 118 Enlisted men by disease. Total 257.
Date of Death: September 2, 1964 Place of burial: Marietta National Cemetery, Marietta, Ga.
Adopted by: Researcher: Patrick Drouhard