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Grave #5830: Tilghman Jacoby

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Tilghman Jacoby, Private, 128th Pennsylvania Infantry. Died February 20, 1863 of Dysentery.

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Grave #5830: Tilghman Jacoby

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Tilghman Jacoby's Widow was able to secure a pension for herself and their child.

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Pension file, page 1

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Brief in the case of Catherine Jacoby shows that she received a pension of $8 per month

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Pension file, page 3

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Catherine Jacoby's deposition in her claim for a pension

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Catherine Jacoby deposition, page 2

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Pension file, page 6

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Adjutant Report for Tilghman Jacoby

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Pension file, page 8

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Pension file, page 9

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Marriage record for Tilghman Jacoby and Kitty Ann Ronig. The couple married on August 2, 1862.

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Pension file, page 11

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Marriage certificate included with the pension file (labeled "not authenticated")

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Backstory and Context

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Tilghman Jacoby of the 128th PA Infantry died just after midnight on February 20, 1863. The eighteen year old had been unwell with dysentery for months before it suddenly turned into typhoid fever right before his death. Comrades and hospital staff prepared his body to send it home to the wife Jacoby had married only a few weeks before enlisting. Catherine did not collect the body from its temporary burial at Aquia Landing because she gave birth to their only son, Charles Tilghman Jacoby, just five days before Tilghman died. Catherine received a widow’s pension of $8 per month until she remarried to her late husband’s younger brother, Milton, who had served with the 209th PA Infantry in the Petersburg Campaign.

Sources

Pfanz, Donald C. "Where Valor Proudly Sleeps: A History of Fredericksburg National Cemetery, 1866-1933." National Park Service, 2007. (Available at Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania NMP)

Cemetery Roster & Book File, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania NMP

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Photo by Kathleen Thompson

Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Veterans of the Army and Navy Who Served Mainly in the Civil War and the War With Spain, compiled 1861 - 1934. NARA Record Group 15, Catalog ID 30020. Accessed through Fold3, March 18, 2021.

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