The son of Jacob Bader & Susan (Herrold) Potter, he married Catherine Kaegel and fathered Levi (b. @1844), Anne (b. @1845), Margaret (b. @1847), Edwin K. (b. 08/26/58), Jacob Harris (b. 04/28/60), Elmer E. (b. @1862), and Ida Ellen (b. 08/21/64 - married a Patton). In 1860, he was a carpenter/ship builder living with his family in Liverpool Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania. He is in the 1850 census as a thirty-seven-year-old and the 1860 census as a forty-eight-year-old.
A Civil War veteran, he was ostensibly drafted (per the company register) at the stated age of forty-three [sic] in Perry County October 21, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 2 as a private with Co. E, 178th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), promoted to corporal, and honorably discharged with his company July 27, 1863. However, given that he was too old to have been conscripted and he lied about his age, it is more likely that he enlisted as a substitute, although service records for the 1862 state drafted regiments do not always delineate the difference.
A Civil War veteran, he was ostensibly drafted (per the company register) at the stated age of forty-three [sic] in Perry County October 21, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 2 as a private with Co. E, 178th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), promoted to corporal, and honorably discharged with his company July 27, 1863. However, given that he was too old to have been conscripted and he lied about his age, it is more likely that he enlisted as a substitute, although service records for the 1862 state drafted regiments do not always delineate the difference.
The son of Jacob Bader & Susan (Herrold) Potter, he married Catherine Kaegel and fathered Levi (b. @1844), Anne (b. @1845), Margaret (b. @1847), Edwin K. (b. 08/26/58), Jacob Harris (b. 04/28/60), Elmer E. (b. @1862), and Ida Ellen (b. 08/21/64 - married a Patton). In 1860, he was a carpenter/ship builder living with his family in Liverpool Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania. He is in the 1850 census as a thirty-seven-year-old and the 1860 census as a forty-eight-year-old.
A Civil War veteran, he was ostensibly drafted (per the company register) at the stated age of forty-three [sic] in Perry County October 21, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 2 as a private with Co. E, 178th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), promoted to corporal, and honorably discharged with his company July 27, 1863. However, given that he was too old to have been conscripted and he lied about his age, it is more likely that he enlisted as a substitute, although service records for the 1862 state drafted regiments do not always delineate the difference.
A Civil War veteran, he was ostensibly drafted (per the company register) at the stated age of forty-three [sic] in Perry County October 21, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 2 as a private with Co. E, 178th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), promoted to corporal, and honorably discharged with his company July 27, 1863. However, given that he was too old to have been conscripted and he lied about his age, it is more likely that he enlisted as a substitute, although service records for the 1862 state drafted regiments do not always delineate the difference.
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