sentences:  In 1856, he became a journeyman printer with the "Berks and Schuylkill Journal".He relocated to Columbia, South Carolina in 1859, and returned to the Reading area at the outset of the American Civil War, where in 1863 he enlisted in Company C of the 42nd Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers.Although he is sometimes referred to as "Colonel," he saw no active service during the war.