BIO:  Edward L. SCHRODER, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 42

CAPT. EDWARD L. SCHRODER was born in York, York Co., Penn., and is a son of 
Emanuel and Mary (Laucks) Schroder, and of German and Scotch origin.  His father 
was born in York in 1803, and his mother in York County, in 1809.  Our subject 
was educated in the York public schools and the York County Academy.  He learned 
the trade of cabinet-making.  He was a member of the Worth Infantry Military 
Company (Capt. Thomas A. Zeigle), when that company was called in service April 
20, 1861.  He entered the service; the company became Company A, Sixteenth 
Regiment, and served until mustered out July 30, 1861.  October 22, 1861, he 
enlisted in Company F, Fifth Maryland Volunteers, for the term of three years, 
was appointed sergeant-major of the regiment, commissioned second lieutenant of 
Company A, March 16, 1862, and first lieutenant of Company H same year (December 
10, 1862), and captain of Company I, April 7, 1864.  He took part in the 
historic engagement between the “Monitor” and “Merrimac,” was at Antietam and 
Winchester, Va., June 13 to 15, 1863, was taken prisoner of war on June 15, and 
was for eighteen months in Southern prisons.  He spent eleven months in the 
famous Libby Prison at Richmond, Va., was under fire of Union batteries in 
Charleston, S. C., was paroled at Columbia, S. C., and sent to Camp Parole, 
Annapolis, Md., December 15, 1864, and on January 28, 1865, was honorably 
mustered out of the service.  His marriage was solemnized July 1, 1878, to Miss 
Kate Laucks, daughter of David Laucks, of Berks County, Penn.  In politics he is 
a Republican, is a Mason and Knight Templar, and member of I. O. O. F., also a 
member of Post 37, G. A. R., has been senior vice commander and post commander 
and an aide-de-camp on the staff of the commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. of 
the United States, and director Western National Bank.