Heintzelman, Samuel Peter

Life Span
to
Full name
Samuel Peter Heintzelman
Place of Birth
Manheim, PA
Burial Place
Buffalo, NY
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Family
Peter Heintzelman (father), Ann Elizabeth Grubb Heintzelman (mother)
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Occupation
Military
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army
US military (Post-Civil War)
Date Event
- The first pitched battle of the war between armies results in a Union disaster at Bull Run
Union telegrapher dies in a Washington DC hospital of wounds from a booby-trap left in Yorktown
- Largest battle yet in the eastern theater fought at Fair Oaks, Virginia near Richmond
How to Cite This Page: "Heintzelman, Samuel Peter," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/37493.