Year: 2020

That’s Lieutenant Colonel James MacThompson of the 107th Pennsylvania Infantry in the back row, hand in his jacket. The photograph is of a group of officers – General Abner Doubleday, right-center front – of the Philadelphia Courts-Martial Commission in February 1865. It was was sold by Heritage Auctions in 2009. In September 1862 he was…

This is Colonel Thomas A Rowley who commanded the 102nd Pennsylvania Infantry in Maryland in September 1862. His regiment was in reserve at Antietam on the 17th. This photograph of him was sold by Heritage Auctions in September 2016. He was made Brigadier General in November 1862. He apparently went to pieces while in command…

That’s Evan Thomas Jones somewhat post-war at the back right next to his wife Susan Schultz and other family. He’s seated at the left in the smaller picture with his brother William, probably taken before the war. Both photographs are from great-great-granddaughter Carol Lewis Haughey. Evan and William enlisted in New York City in August…

David Porter Book was a Corporal of Company E, 100th Pennsylvania Infantry – the Roundheads – when he was wounded by a gunshot at Fox’s Gap on South Mountain in September 1862. By the end of the war he was Captain of his Company and he mustered out with them in July 1865. His photograph…

Lieutenant Colonel David Allen Lecky commanded the “Roundheads” – the 100th Pennsylvania Infantry – on the Maryland Campaign of 1862. He’s seen here with his second wife Elizabeth Jane Warne considerably later, in a photograph contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Jonathan Omholt. The smaller photograph of him in uniform was sold online by Red…

Theodore P. Willingmyre was the youngest of 5 brothers who served during the war and he was wounded in the arm at Antietam while serving as Private, Company K, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry. Another brother, Charles W. Willingmyre, was also on the Campaign, with the 118th Pennsylvania Infantry, and he was captured in action nearby at…