Family:John Diener and Anna Kaudel (2)

John Diener was a shoemaker and musician living in Pennsylvania when he enrolled in the Band of the 87th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers on 30 Oct 1862 in York, Pennsylvania. He was a Private who volunteered to serve a three year term. He reportedly "contracted a serious illness after he led the band in a serenade for General Robert Huston Milroy on a brutally cold evening in Winchester, Virginia". His disease was variously described as pleurisy, consumption, and pneumonia. He was taken home (to Hanover, Pennsylvania) where he died 23 March, 1863.

1. ↑ John Diener, in Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans
   Application #WC60721, 1864.

   Sworn statement given by Rev. Benj. S. Schneck clergyman of German Reformed Church in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania documenting the date he married Ann M. Kaudel and John Diener.