According to pension file records Jacob Diehl Flinchbaugh was in the
Civil War,
200th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Company K, Enlisted on 8/31/1864
Honorably discharged on 5/30 1865
" this information was given to me by Stephen Geisler of York Pa "
After the war he remarried (his wife Nancy Reicherd had died, but the children are from Nancy and Jacob) and then in about 1872 Jacob traveled from York Pa to Wilmington Delaware. While there he contracted Small Pox and died. Because of the nature of his death his body was not returned to York Pa. He is buried in a unknown location in Wilmington Del.
Organized at Harrisburg September 3, 1864
Left State for Bermuda Hundred, Va. September 9
Attached to Engineer Brigade. Army of the Potomac, to October, 1864
Provisional Brigade, Army of the James, to November, 1864
Provisional Brigade, 9th Army Corps. Army of the Potomac, to December 1864
1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, to May, 1865
Service
Duty near Dutch Gap, with Army of the James September 11 to November 28, 1864
Repulse of attack November 19th
Transferred to Army of the Potomac November 2
Seige of Petersburg, December, 1864 to April 1865
Dabney's Mills. Hatcher's Run Febuary 5th-7th, 1865
Fort Stedman March 25
Appomattox Campaign March 28th- April 9th
Assult on and capture of Petersburg Va April 2
Occupation of Petersburg April 2nd
Pursuit of lee April 3-9
Appomattox Court House April 9th, Surrender of Lee and his Army
Duty at Nottaway Court House till May
Ordered to City Point and then to Alexandria Va and duty there till May 30th
Mustered out May 30, 1865. Recruits transferred to the 51st Pennsylvania Volunteers
Killed and Wounded
Regiment lost during service - 30 Enlisted Men Killed and Mortally wounded 24.
Enlisted Men by Disease - Total 54
