I noted with interest " The Rummel family became Brethren at Nappanee IN - after Isaiah Rummel came home from the war". My Great-Grandparents Lewis Henry REHERD & Margaret Elizabeth "Maggie" SHAVER REHERD also became Brethren after the Civil War. I've often wondered if Pacifist churches picked up a number of Veterans who had seen too much war. **Does anyone have any information relating to Veterans joining Pacifist Churchs?** My GGF Lewis was baptized at Friedens German Reformed Church, Rockingham Co, VA in 1829 (record in German) and Maggie was baptized in the same church in 1839 (record in English). Lewis was 32 years old and had never been married when the war started, and he enlisted in Company B, 10th VA Infantry [Rockingham Rifles]. By the end of 1861 he is listed as the Company blacksmith, by 1862 he is the Regimental blacksmith, and in 1863 he was the Stonewall Brigade blacksmith, yet never was promoted above private. Lewis went to Gettysburg, and apparently left the night of 3 July as a mechanic/blacksmith heading South with the wagon train of supplies and wounded. The wagon train had arrived at the flooding Potomac River at Williamsport, MD by the morning of 6 July, where it was attacked by Union Calvary in The Battle of the Wagoneers [simultaneously there was a battle a few miles away in Hagerstown]. During the Battle of the Wagoneers Lewis was shot through the eye and the ball lodged on the inside of his temple. The Confederate Army finally managed to cross the flooding Potomac on the night of 13-14 July. The ball was surgically removed from Lewis' head probably 15 July probably at Winchester, VA. Lewis appears on Confederate Muster Rolls as home on Medical Leave through October 1864, and presumably stayed there for the duration of the War. [By Oct 1864 the siege of Richmond is tightening, and keeping track of Lewis was probably not high on the list for the Confederate War Department] Lewis and Maggie married in 1866 and they settled near Dry River in Rockingham Co, VA where they are buried at Beaver Creek Church of the Brethren. My grandmother was born in 1867, and two more girls were born before Lewis died suddenly in 1876, probably of stroke or heart attack. Maggie remarried in 1888 after having a Pre-Nuptial agreement filed in the Deeds Room of the Rockingham Courthouse; Maggie received $500 and the right to keep all her property, and her new husband got to keep his property (they both had children from their respective first marriages). Both partners of this second marriage were buried with their first spouses. Thom Flory ********** My Isaiah Rummel (great grandfather) married Mariah Strycker, of the Solomon Stump families at the Union Center Church of the Brethren, Nappanee IN. My father said that each of his grandparents (4) went a different direction of church. Isaiah went to a Mennonite Church. His wife went to the Brethren, and took all the children with her. (my grandpa married the Pretty Girl across the road! - Skinner family, from North Baltimore and Van Buren OH, north of Findley - I'm not sure where they went to church) Isaiah lived about a mile from Christopher Strycker, Mariah's father. - from CR7 (where Christopher lived), north, around the corner on CR48 (homestead farm) - NE of Nappanee - I really expect that it was just - "the Pretty Girl living down around the corner!" Merle C Rummel