Philip Sipple
Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Database (Illinois State Archives):
       Sipple, Philip - SGT - Co F - 31 IL US INF
       Residence, Carlinville, Macoupin Co, IL; Join, 22Aug1861; Age, 26; Born, Hessen Castle, Germany
       Height, 5' 10-1/2"; Hair, light; Eyes, hazel; Complexion, fair; Single; Shoemaker
        Promote 2LT 15Feb1862
       Sipple, Philip - 2LT - Co F - 31 IL US INF
        Residence, Caledonia, Pulaski Co, IL; Age 27; Born, Germany
        Height, 5' 10-1/2"; Hair, light; Eyes, hazel; Complexion, fair; Single; Bootmaker
        Promoted 1LT 28May1863       
       Sipple, Philip - 1LT - Co F - 31 IL US INF
       Residence, Carlinville, Macoupin Co, IL; Join, 28May1863; Born, Hessen Castle, Germany
       Height, 5' 10-1/2"; Hair, light; Eyes, hazel; Complexion, fair; Single; Shoemaker
       Discharged 10Dec1864 on accounty of wounds
American Civil War Soldiers (ancestry.com)
       Phillip Sipple - Sergeant - Co F - 31st Infantry Regiment Illinois
        Residence, Carlinville, Illinois
       Promoted to Full Liertenant 2nd Class, 15Feb1862
       Promoted to Full Lieuteneant 1st Class, 18Apr1863
       Mustered out, 19July1865 in Louisville, KY
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System Search Detail (National Park Service):
                
Civil War Pension Index (ancestry.com):
       Sipple, Philip
      
Widow - Sipple, Lena  et: al
       Service - F - 31 Ill. Inf.
       Dated of filing - 18?0Nov19 - Minor  - Application #471.409 - MO
National Graves Registration Database (Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War):
     
Will County Illinois USGenWeb Necrologist Reports (© 2002 The ILGenWeb Project All Rights Reserved):
     
Headstone Reading, Oakwood Cemetery, Joliet, Will Co., IL - G.A.R. Section:
        Phillip A. Sipple
        
1st Lieut Co F
           31 ILL INF
            1836-1877

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US Census Records:
    1870 - Macoupin, Illinois - Philip Sipple Household
       
Sipple, Philip - 34, born, Germany- Saloon keeper; Lizzi, 24
         Lena, 4; William, 3; Louisa, 1