b. 30/08/1843 Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Wurttemberg (now Germany). d. 24/11/1917 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
DATE OF MOH ACTION: 25/08/1864 Reams Station, Virginia.
Born on August 30, 1843, Ferdinand Frederick Rohm was a native of Esslingen in the Kingdom of Württemberg. On September 1, 1862, at the age of 19, Ferdinand F. Rohm enrolled for Civil War military service in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. He then officially mustered in for duty at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg on September 18 as a private with Company F of the 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Following his honorable discharge from the military, Rohm wed Mary Lindsay (1840–1930), a native of Ireland, who was a daughter of Edward Lindsay (1802–1867) and Mary (Armstrong) Lindsay (1806–1889). He and his wife then began to build a life with the births of their children Pauline (1870–1959); Edward, Frederick and Mary (born circa 1872, 1873 and 1876); Nancy L. (1877–1946); William (born circa 1879); and Dorothy (1883–1957) at their home in Juniata County on what had been the property of Dennis Christie during the mid-1700s (and later that of J. Shelburn Robinson).
Appointed to the park police at the Pennsylvania’s State Arsenal in 1887 by Pennsylvania Governor James Addams Beaver, the Union officer whose life he had saved at Ream’s Station nearly a quarter of a century earlier, Rohm continued his employment with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Public Grounds and Buildings department as a watchman into the 1890s and early 1900s. In 1912, Rohm was promoted to the rank of sergeant with the Capitol Police. He had finally received his Medal of Honor on October 16, 1897.
MOH CITATION:
While his regiment was retiring under fire, voluntarily remained behind to succor a wounded officer who was in great danger, secured assistance, and removed the officer to a place of safety.
BURIAL LOCATION: WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CEMETERY, MIFFLINTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.
NORTH MAIN TO THIRD, ROW 25, GRAVE 13.
LOCATION OF MEDAL: UNKNOWN.
