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Einwanderun USA 07.09.1840
Member of Union Cornet Band, Buffalo, Erie County, New York.
25 Oct 1855 - Arrangement Committee
16 Sep 1877 - Band Member
Also known as Nebrig.
Papers from Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt received 7 Dec 1992 showing emigration to the US by Konrad & Elisabeth OHL NEBRICH show Peter to be 5 years old in 1840. Confirms relationship. Lived at 397 Spring Street in Buffalo, New York. Civil War Record: NY 21st Infantry - Age 31 years. Enlist ed Sept. 17, 1861 at Buffalo to serve 2 years; mustered in as first-class musician in band, date not stated; mustered out, August 17, 1862 with band at Slaughter Mountain, Virginia. From the Adjutant-General.Papers from Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt received7 Dec 1992 showing emigration to the US by Konrad & Elisabeth OHL NEBRICH show Peter to be 5 years old in 1840. Confirms relationship.
Civil War Record: NY 21st Infantry - Age 31 years. Enlisted Sept. 17, 1861 at Buffalo to serve 2 years; mustered in as first-class musician in band, date not stated; mustered out, August17, 1862 with band at Slaughter Mountain, Virginia. From the Adjutant-General.
On December 17, 1894, Peter Nebrich made his will and listed the following living children:
From First Wife Catharine Mayer:
Mary Siegel
Caroline Schmidt
Lizzie Miller
Peter Nebrich
John Nebrich
From Second Wife Barbara Rayner/Roehner
Catherine Arnold
Charles Nebrich
Henry Nebrich
William Nebrich
Louis Nebrich
Anthony Nebrich
Frank Nebrich
George Nebrich
"New York in the War of the Rebellion: 1861-1865 Compiled by Frederick Phisterer
Page 110 Colors of the 21st Infantry
I. National color, silk; with staff.
This color was presented to the 21st Infantry by the young ladies of the Central School of the City of Buffalo, in the Spring of 1861. It was carried by the regiment in the followingbattles:
Rappahannock Station Sulphur Springs
Groveton Second Bull Run
Chantilly South Mountain
Antietam Fredericksburg
In the second Battle at Bull Run, 5 enlisted men were killed and wounded while carrying it, and the eagle at the top of the staff was shot off.
Item from Buffalo, NY paper - 1912, Titled: "Civil War Musician and Old East Side Resident Dead" (Accompanied by photo of "Peter Nebrich") - need to obtain photo.
Peter Nebrich, the survivor of four brothers who served as members of the Twenty-First Reigment band, N.Y. volunteers, died at his home, 597 Spring Street, last evening. Mr. Nebrich is one of the oldest residents on the East Side, where he resided with his family for more than 70 years.
Born in Partenheim, Germany, 82 years ago, Mr. Nebrich came to this country with his parents when a boy of ten years. Mr. Nebrich was a musician and when the Civil War was delcared he, with his three brothers, Charles, William and Henry, enlisted with the Twenty-First Regiment, which was recruited in Buffalo. After serving a little more than a year the band returned home.He was also a member of the Union Cornet Band, the leading musical organization of this city half a century ago and later of Young's Band. He retired about 15 years ago.
Mr. Nebrich was the father of Frank Nebrich, the Sixty-Fifth Infantry's champion one-mile runner. Surviving his are his widown, Catherine Nebrich and twleve children: Mrs. Elizabeth Miller of Chicago, Mrs. Catherine Folland of Port Colborne, Mrs. Mary Sieger (sic) , Peter, John, Charles, Henry, William, Louis, Anthony, Frank and George Nebrich.
Mr. Nebrich was a member of Chapin Post 2, G.A.R., the members of which will participate in the funeral services which will take place Friday morning at 9 o'clock in St. Mary's Church."
(Note: Mrs. Mary Sieger ismisspelled; it should be Mrs. Mary Siegel).
Union Cornet Band History
Buffalo, New York
The Union Cornet Band first appeared in Buffalo in 1851 when, on June 5th, an advertisement appeared in the Buffalo Morning Express announcing that "The UNION BRASS BAND... respectfully inform the citizens of Buffalo and vicinity that they are
prepared to furnish music for funerals, processions, excursions, &c." The following day, the Express said "We would call attention to the card of the Brass Band. It is composed of young men of respectability and industry, who have accomplished
themselves in music during odd hours when their daily duties did not call for their time, and who are entitled to encouragement for their perseverance and skill in acquiring a good practical knowledge of the concord of sweet sounds." The advertisement, which was dated June 4, 1851, appeared in the paper daily until July 10, 1851. For the next thirty or more years, the UnionCornet Band was one of the most prominent musical organizations in the city. During this time, there was hardly a parade or celebration in the city that did not include the Union Cornet Band. In addition to their regular Wednesday and Saturday night concerts at Schenkelbergers Hall, they played on excursions and at picnics, at balls and church dedications, in parades and benefit concerts.
The band, however, may not have met with immediate success. The notice which first appeared on June 5th, 1851, was repeated almost every other day for over a month, yet their first recorded appearance is not found until December 6, 1851.
During this period, W.H. Barnhart's Buffalo Cornet Band was very active in Buffalo.
The first known public performance of the Union Brass Band was on a pleasure excursion to Dunkirk aboard the steamer Empire which took place on Monday, June 20, 1853, "for the purpose of defraying the expenses of their new uniforms. The
boat will leave the foot of Commercial street, at half past 9 o'clock A.M. The members of the band will spare no exertions to render this trip a pleasant and satisfactory day's recreationto all." By October 1854, the band was known as the Union Cornet
Band, a name which would be retained until the 1874 reorganization when reed instruments were added.
In 1853 the First Annual Festival of the Union Brass Band was held. This apparently was an attempt to make themselves more well-known. The Second and Third Annual Festivals were held in 1854 and 1855 at Roth's New Hall at the corner of
Michigan and Cypress streets.
During the Civil War, some members of the Union Cornet Band, including the four Nebrich brothers, joined the Regimental Band of the 21st New York Regiment. The rest of the band members kept up a regulat schedule of events throughout the war.
After the War, the band served as the Regimental Band for the 74th Regiment of the New York National Guard and made two trips to the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876.
Years later, Otto F. Andrle, son of long time band member Francis Andrle, recalled the Wednesday and Saturday evening concerts at Schenkelbergers Hall. "Grand concerts, those, out Main street in the Cold Spring district. Whole families gathered
about, glasses of bubbling beer on the tables in the beer gardens, while the brasses thrilled, and moaned, and hummed music of the masters and music of the day. The Clements were there, and the Carys, and the Drullards, the Blochers, and the
Schoellkopfs' and Philip Becker, Conrad Diehl, and Augustus Scheu. It was a bit of the old world and the new - that beer garden."
Schenkelberger's Hall was described in an Express article in June 1874 at the inauguration of the regular series of summer night concerts. "The hall has been renovated and repainted, and with its high roof and spacious interior will prove to be a refreshingly cool and comfortable place to spend an evening when the real hot weather sets in. The floor was thickly scattered over with chairs and tables, and baskets of trailing plants were suspended from the beams overhead. The yard back of the hall, which has been floored and covered over with an awning of whitecloth, will accommodate a large number of guests, and is the most attractive spot about the premises."
In 1874, the band was reorganized as the Union Cornet Reed Band under the direction of Louis H. Plogsted. Plogsted had become a member of the band in 1865 at the age of 17, when ProfessorFederlein was the conductor. Plogsted became the
conductor in 1873 upon the retirement of Federlein. This was the first military band using reed instruments in the city, and gave its first concert at St. James Hall, May 29, 1874. At thistime, the band was composed of 28 pieces, 2 e flat clarinets, 4 b flat
clarionets, 1 piccolo, 2 bassoons, 2 b flat cornets, 2 e flat trumpets, 4 horns, 2 trombones, 1 euphonium, 3 e flat basses, 1 bass trombone, 1 big drum, 1 pair cymbals, 2 small drums and 1triangle.
In 1876, the band made two trips to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia.
Benefit performances were often given by the band for different causes. On Thursday evening, September 20, 1877, the band gave a concert at Kehr's Hall for the benefit of one of their ownmembers, Mr. Frank Andrle, "who is much in need of this assistance, in consequence of protracted illness."5 At his funeral in December of that year, "the members of the Union Cornet Band were present as mourners, and the remains were escorted to Pine-Hill Cemetery by the Germania, Miller's, Kehr's and Young's bands."
After the break-up of the Union Cornet Band sometime after 1880, some of the members joined the Young's Band.
, 1870 census shows Real Estate Valued at $2,000 and Personal Estate Valued at $500. Parents born in Hessen-Darmstadt. Naturalized.
Records from Hugh Siegel show his birth date as 1 Aug 1830.
Cemetery records show birth date as 1830., Peter was 82 years, 2 months and 20 days old.
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