Career
Emigrating from his native Germany, his surname was originally Schilling. He volunteered for service with the 158th regiment of New York Infantry, part of the Empire-Spinola Brigade which was organized in Brooklyn in August 1862. Assigned to the Union XVIII Corps, the regiment lost during service two officers and 45 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 83 enlisted men by disease.
At the Battle of Chaffin"s Farm, Private Schiller led a Union infantry advance into the Confederate trench works.
Schiller died at age 96 and was buried at Cypress Hills National Cemetery in Brooklyn.
