Month: March 2019
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Anson M. Vicory
Corporal Anson M. Vicory, Company C, 17th Michigan Infantry was wounded by gunshot to the leg in action at Fox’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and was discharged for wounds in Philadelphia in February 1863. His photograph was contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Kenny Melton.
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Joseph Dicey
Private Joseph Dicey enlisted the day after his 21st birthday, on 11 August 1862, in Company F, 17th Michigan Infantry. He was mortally wounded in his left thigh and right leg in action at Fox’s Gap on South Mountain about a month later and died at the Casparis Hotel Hospital in Washington, DC just over…
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Col Norval E. Welch … leaping the enemy parapet
Colonel Norval E. Welch was killed at the battle of Peeble’s Farm near Poplar Grove Church, VA on 30 September 1864. He’s pictured here “leaping the parapet” just before his death, in an illustration from Harper’s Weekly of 22 October 1864, posted on House Divided. Welch was the Lieutenant Colonel of the 16th Michigan Infantry…
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Dead List update
I’ve been pushing hard the last few months to get more soldiers into the database on AotW, focusing particularly on those who died on the Campaign. As a result I’ve posted an update to the list of The Dead of the Maryland Campaign of 1862. It’s now up to just over 6,300 people out of…
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Officers of the 3rd Delaware Infantry
Captain William James McKaig took command of the regiment at Antietam after Major Maginnis was wounded on 17 September 1862. This group photograph of officers of the 3rd Delaware was taken in May 1862 and is now in the Delaware State Archives. McKaig is third from the right, back row.
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Fourth Union League Regiment
This 1863 recruiting poster for the 183rd Pennsylvania Infantry, the fourth regiment sponsored by Philadelphia’s Union League, is in the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP). Arthur Maginnis, listed as Lieutenant Colonel of the 183rd, had served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3-month 19th Pennsylvania Infantry at the start of the war,…
