Carsten Pape (1836) to Connor (2007) and Griffin Pape (2009)
On October 7, 1836, Carsten Pape was born in Koehlen Kingdom, Hanover Germany. That was just six months after the battle at the Alamo took place in Texas.
For $16 (equivalent to $352 today), German immigrants could purchase a ticket in steerage on a tobacco ship returning to Baltimore from Bremerhaven.
Just before his 18th birthday, Carsten left Germany (what was then Prussia) from the port of Bremerhaven, bound for America on October 1, 1854.
Somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, he turned 18 years old and a month later, in November, arrived in Baltimore Maryland.
He settled in Cinncinati, Ohio where he worked as a confectioneer... making candy.
On October, 30th, 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, Carsten was 25 years old. He enlisted as a private with the 4th Ohio Cavalry. This would change his life forever and where we all would all grow up and live.
While with the 4th Ohio Calvary, Carsten was mainly in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama.
His unit pursued Morgan's Raiders throughout those states.
Their wagon train was captured by Morgan in March 1862, but recovered after "a chase, the parallel to which has seldom been seen" according to a Captain of the 4th.
Days after the battle of Shiloh, the 4th surprised the town of Huntsville, Alabama.
They succeeded in capturing the whole town with barely a shot being fired.
In March 1863, after the 4th participated in the battle of Stone's River, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Carsten was again pursuing Morgan's Raider's through a small town named Bradyville, east of Nashville, Tennessee,
when his horse fell and landed on him. Probably shot, the 4th lost 2 horses in that skirmish.
Carsten spent the next 6 months in Murfreesboro Field Hospital & Nashville Convalescent Hospital.
From there he was transferred to the 8th Veteran Reserve Corp, Company B. and served as a prison guard at Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois. Carsten was discharged November 9, 1864.
He returned to Cincinnati to marry Anna Louise Schierbaum on August 14, 1867.
Two years later (1869) they moved to Chicago and their first son was born and two years later they witnessed the Great Chicago Fire (1871).
All told, they had 7 sons and 1 daughter.
Carsten died September 5, 1903. He is buried in Concordia Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois (outside Chicago) with a military stone.
Anna died in 1928 and is buried beside him.
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