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Does anyone have the actual name of the Civil War unit this man served with during the Civil War? I do not find him on CW military indices online - neither service nor pension. He was one of four sons of Jacob Stineman, Jr. of Cambria County, Pennsylvania - all of them were participants in the Civil War. A particularly poignant story was published in a Johnstown, PA newspaper the week Joseph's brother Daniel Stineman was buried.
April 10, 1903 (a reprint of Johnstown Weekly Tribune of 3 March 1865. The item was republished in conjunction with Joseph's obituary.
"An incident occurred last Tuesday in connection with Daniel T. Stineman. Jacob Stineman, of Richland Twp., is the father of four boys. Two of them - George B. and Jacob C. - are now with Grant in front of Petersburg; the third, Daniel T., was killed at Hatcher's Run in February, and the fourth - Joseph - the oldest, entered the Cavalry Service at the beginning of the war.
For more than two years, Joseph had not been heard from, and the family and friends thought he had died, in fact they mourned him as dead.
On Friday of last week, the body of Daniel was brought home for interment, and this Tuesday was to be the funeral. On the day of the funeral, Joseph walked into his father's house, a well and sound man! He had been a prisoner of the Rebels for two years, had been condemned to die as a spy, had escaped, and joined Mosby's Guerrillas as a means of getting near our lines, and on a favorable opportunity, he came through the lines and reported to General Grant. He reached home just in time for his brother's funeral."
Paints quite a picture doesn't it? A bio of William H. Stineman, a son by his first marriage, says he served in Stoneman's Cavalry Brigade, enlisting in Philadelphia. His obituary says he went "west" and joined a cavalry unit that became part of Stoneman's Brigade. It is my understanding a brigade is made up of a number of units and those units can change over the period of a year or two, so it is difficult to locate which unit he was with when captured especially when his name does not show up in the indices. If anyone has proof of his unit, I would be thrilled to have the information so I can order his records.
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