tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post7225534468126566831..comments2024-03-06T06:52:36.635-05:00Comments on The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry: An Extraordinary Day. . .George & John Dentzer, 48th PAJohn David Hoptakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10521690201528852944noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-56047000384566303532019-03-18T11:29:03.723-04:002019-03-18T11:29:03.723-04:00John Dentzer's gravestone is "on its face...John Dentzer's gravestone is "on its face." The Cressona Cemetery is stating that there are no funds to fix broken and toppled over stones. My husband and I have been trying to find out more about the brothers. We would like to fundraise to get John's stone raised and properly set, along with ensuring George's stone is set properly. We also want to get a plaque made with the verbiage from their stones, since you can no longer make the entire verbiage out. We are trying to locate family to obtain permission to do this. We are not seeking any money......just permission. If any family of these two men can contact me, please do so!! sfpellen@yahoo.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11205155028982927707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-13805206450815937452015-12-15T02:24:55.227-05:002015-12-15T02:24:55.227-05:00My Name is Michael Anthony Dentzer, From the Blood...My Name is Michael Anthony Dentzer, From the Bloodline from Anweiler Germany. It is great to see the History and Be able to Honor our Ancestors Bravery. Thankyou for the research and hard work those have done for this family.<br /><br />SIncerely,<br />Michael A.Dentzer<br />Arizona USA.<br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03249364183310087665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-26119787868082062342014-04-15T21:05:16.089-04:002014-04-15T21:05:16.089-04:00I was thrilled to find this article! Henry G. Den...I was thrilled to find this article! Henry G. Dentzer was my great-great grandfather and his daughter Miriam Dentzer Butts was my great grandmother. She had letters written from the brothers during their time in the war that have been donated to Duke University. How wonderful to see pictures of them! Thank youayonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08526733337510367624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-40843903820649893502010-08-10T10:12:46.664-04:002010-08-10T10:12:46.664-04:00I found this information very moving and wonderful...I found this information very moving and wonderful. I became fascinated with all things Civil War a number of years ago while researching my great-grandfather, Joseph Zeigler, 48th, Company D. He served from the Wilderness on through to Appammatox. Also at the burning of the bridge at Columbia, PA in 1863 (in another regiment). Thank you so much for your work, and for your love of the 48th that keeps it alive and well. I was at the Nagle dedication, and enjoyed the day...also thanks to your hard work and love of it.Linda Stephensnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-34030633453076014032010-08-04T22:36:20.122-04:002010-08-04T22:36:20.122-04:00Thank you for sharing your wonderful day! What a ...Thank you for sharing your wonderful day! What a great story! I was brought to tears by your post and the comments of the ancestors of the Dentzer brothers. I undertand exactly how you must of felt. I have been researching the 7th Maine regiment and have had similar experiences but your's indeed was extraordinary.Bobbie in Mainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-53138673114393773902010-08-04T12:08:48.113-04:002010-08-04T12:08:48.113-04:00Mr. Hoptak - Your post also brought me to tears. I...Mr. Hoptak - Your post also brought me to tears. I am William T. Dentzer, Jr., the father of the two Dentzers you met yesterday. The first information we had about John and George came from my grandfather, Charles O. Dentzer, a son of Henry George. Henry George (Georg Heinrich) was born in l834 and, according to my grandfather, came to the US with his parents "at age 8".That indicates his arrival here in 1842. His brother George was born in l838 and his brother John on October 23, 1843, the only American born of the brothers. Thank you for your scholarship and appreciation of those brothers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296287100970811608.post-21362942883706571422010-08-04T10:59:38.073-04:002010-08-04T10:59:38.073-04:00Thank you, Mr. Hoptak.
My brother Bill (whom yo...Thank you, Mr. Hoptak. <br /><br />My brother Bill (whom you met today at Antietam) sent me a link to your blog and I just read your entry about my great, great, great-uncles, George and John.<br /><br />Sometime in the early 1970s, before my grandfather died, he created a family scrapbook containing the photos of George and John you posted in your blog. (The brothers would have been my grandfather's great-uncles, the younger brothers of his grandfather Henry.) That is how I learned about them— but I never knew more than the brief captions my grandfather had printed under their photos... I remember looking at them as a child, wondering who these men were as people, what it was like to live in those times, what led both of them to enlist (John, in particular, who ran away to fight when— I was told— he was in his early teens), and so on... How amazing that someone with no relation to them had similar questions!<br /><br />So, it was wonderful to read your post, and strangely comforting to know that, instead of ending up in the proverbial "ash-heap of history," the stories of my ancestors are still meaningful to some of us today. Over 150 years later, their sacrifices— and their lives— have not been forgotten.<br /><br />Many thanks!Emily Dentzernoreply@blogger.com