behind AotW

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 is in the collection of David L. Welch, online.

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 Rose Antiques in 1999.

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 Shepherdstown Ford. This impressive memorial to the brothers was placed in the Susquehanna section of Palmer Cemetery in Philadelphia in 2013.

This is the Philadelphia municipal record of the death of 29 year old Theodore Tacy of that city. He was a Private in the 90th Pennsylvania Infantry and was mortally wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died sometime afterward. He was buried in Philadelphia on 7 October 1862.

2nd Lieutenant John Thompson Reilly of Company F, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry was wounded at Antietam in September 1862. His photograph is from the collection of Scott Hann.