After the war, Richard Binder was honorably discharged and received his Medal of Honor on June 22, 1865, although the ceremony for it wasn't held until the 1890s. Nine other men from the USS Ticonderoga received Medals of Honor at Fort Fisher.
In 1868 he married a woman named Fredericka who had immigrated from the same German city years prior. They had a daughter and son.
He resumed cutting hair. By 1890 he had four shops across Philadelphia and even expanded into tonics and toupees. He was quite a cane collector and had 600 of them, including one that had been used by President Abraham Lincoln.
He died February 26, 1912, from heart disease and is buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia.
For the Hairy Old. --Old B-R'er
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