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Member of the Union Cornet Band, Buffalo, Erie County, New York
16 Sep 1877 - Band Member
1860 City Directory - Buffalo, Erie County, New York shows him living in h. Spring n. Genesee & Sycamore Streets.
New York 21st Infantry - Report of the Adjutant-General. Civil War Record: Age 19 yers. Enlisted, September 17, 1861 At Buffalo to serve two years; mustered in as second-class musician in band, date not stated; mustered out, August 27, 1862, with band at Slaughter Mountain, Virginia. Union Cornet Band - Listed in the Buffalo Morning Express 9/17/1877. In 1880 lived on 437 Genesee Street. Occupation: Moulder. First child of Conrad & Elizabeth born in Erie County, Buffalo, NY.
Also, served with the 32nd Light Battery.
"New York in the War of the Rebellion" 1861-1865
Complied 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 Groveton
Sulphur Springs Second Bull Run
Chantilly South Mountain
Antietam Frederickburg
In the Second Battle of Bull Run, 5 enlisted men were killed and wounded while carrying it, and the eagle at the top of the staff was shot off.
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 Union Cornet 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 recreation to 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 white cloth, 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 Professor Federlein 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 this time, 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 1 triangle.
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 own members, 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.
, Died of heart disease
Obituary in the BCA Newspaper, Buffalo, NY 12 Jul 1882.
Copy of obituary in file., Section BB lot 54
Speiper Funeral Home
St. Boniface R.C., Buffalo, New York
Jochen
Nebrich
