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Waagner, Gustav:
US-Col 2nd New York Heavy Artillery (vgl. Taliaferro: "Jackson's Raid around Pope", in: Battles & Leaders, Vol. II, S. 504)
Wade, Benjamin Franklin:
US-Senator aus Ohio 1851-69; Senatsvorsitzender des Committee on the Conduct of the War (vgl. Chase: Diary, a.a.O., S. 50); Führer der Radical Republicans im Congress und Gegner von Lincoln's Reconstruction Politik.
Wade, Edward H.:
US-Sergeant, Co. F, 14th Regiment Connecticut Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M535 Roll 16).
Urkunden/Urkunden/Literatur:
- University of Michigan, James S. Schoff Civil War Collection, William L. Clements Library: Edward H. Wade Letters
Wadsworth, Craig W.:
12.7.1840 Pennsylvania - † 3.1.1872 Philadelphia/Pennsylvania; US-Captain; im Sommer 1863 während der Gettysburg Campaign gehörte Wadsworth zum Divisionsstab der 1st Division BrigGen James S. Wadsworth (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 151). OR Series I, vol. XXVII, S. 335, MajGen Reynolds an Chief of Staff MajGen Butterfield vom 26.6.1863:“ „Captain [Craig W.] Wadsworth has just returned from Howard, and I send you his report“.
Sohn von Gen James S. Wadsworth und Mary Craig Wadsworth; Bruder von Cornelia Wadsworth, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Nancy Craig verh. Rogers, Charles Frederick Wadsworth und Elisabeth verh. Barry (vgl. http://www.geni.com/people/Gen-Craig-Wadsworth).
°° mit Evelyn Willing Wadsworth; Vater von James Samuel Wadsworth und Craig Wharton Wadsworth (vgl. http://www.geni.com/ people/ Gen-Craig-Wadsworth).
Urkunden/Urkunden/Literatur:
- Library of the Congress, Washington/DC: Civil War Manuscripts, Nr. 980 Wadsworth, James (1768-1844) Family papers, 1730-1952. ca. 7,000 items. Material from the Civil War consists chiefly of letters and documents relating to the service and death of Wadsworth's son, Gen. James Samuel Wadsworth. Includes official orders and commissions; a letter from General Wadsworth to his daughter on the Battle of Chancellorsville; a copy of Wadsworth's report on the Battle of Gettysburg; an account of the Gettysburg campaign, with accompanying sketches of troop positions and maneuvers; a telegram announcing Wadsworth's death in the Battle of the Wilderness; copies of official reports on Wadsworth's death; and letters of condolence to his wife, Mrs. Mary Wharton Wadsworth, from Gens. George G. Meade, Andrew A. Humphreys, and Gouverneur K. Warren, and various public and private citizens. Also includes letters by Robert E. Lee and Wade Hampton on the return of Wadsworth's body and personal effects; memorials and addresses on the life of General Wadsworth; correspondence with the U.S. Treasury Department on the settlement of Wadsworth's accounts; and letters from Capt. Craig W. Wadsworth and James W. Wadsworth to their parents, Aug. - Oct. 1863, concerning generalship and discipline in the Union Army, the suffering of noncombatants, and attitudes toward blacks. Miscellaneous items include a letter from President Lincoln to Horace Greeley, July 9, 1864, promising safe conduct to anyone carrying peace proposals from Jefferson Davis; correspondence of the Union Defense Committee of New York; and an album containing about 200 signed photographs of military and political leaders on both sides of the war. Additional correspondents are John Dix, T. E. Ellsworth, James B. Fry, Preston King, Edwin D. Morgan, H. J. Raymond, Edwin M. Stanton, and Benjamin F. Wade.
- OR 39, S. 14: Report of Captain Craig W. Wadsworth vom 17.2.1863
Wadsworth, James Samuel:
US-MajGen; US-Politiker; 1801-1864; da er mit anderen Anhängern einer Fraktion der Republikaner die Nominierung von William Henry *Seward (später Secretary of War in der 1. Regierung Lincoln) zum Kandidaten der Republikaner für die Präsidentschaft gg. Lincoln in der Wahl von 1860 verhindert hatte, befürchtete Wadsworth Schwierigkeiten mit Seward nach dessen Ernennung zum Minister (Dana, Recollections, S. 2; zu den Problemen zwischen der Chase-Fraktion der Republikaner und der Seward-Fraktion: vgl. Sandburg: Lincoln vol. I S. 140); 1861 Divisionskommandeur in Washington und vom 7.3.1862-7.9.1862 Befehlshaber der Washington Defences und Militär Gouverneur von Washington (vgl. Dowdey, Seven Pines, a.a.O., S. 48; Boatner, a.a.O., S. 883). Wadsworth war mit vielen Politikern gut bekannt (vgl. Gibbon, Personal Recollections, a.a.O., S. 15); Divisionskommandeur 1st Division 1st Army Corps Army of the Potomac in Gettysburg (Tsouras, Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 13; Kress, John A.: "At Gettysburg," Missouri Republican, St. Louis, December 4, 1886); ab Mai 1864 Divisionskommandeur 4th Division in Warren's 5th Army Corps Army of the Potomac (Vipond: „A New Kind of Murder“; in: Nolan/Vipond: "Giants in their tall Black Hats, S. 115; vgl. Porter: Campaigning with Grant, a.a.O., S. 52); im Battle of the Wilderness detachiert zum links eingesetzten 2nd Army Corps Hancock's (vgl. Porter: Campaigning with Grant, a.a.O., S. 52, 54); gefallen im Battle of the Wilderness.
Karte:
Einsatz der 1 Division (Wadsworth) am Morgen des 1.7.1863 bei McPherson's Ridge (aus Martin: Gettysburg July 1, a.a.O., S.
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Wadsworth setzte bei seinem Eintreffen bei Gettysburg am Morgen des 1.7.1863 auf Befehl von Corps Commander Reynolds die Brigade Cutler beim Cashtown (Chambersburg) Pike auf beiden Seiten von Hall's Battery ein. Durch seinen Stabsoffizier LtCol John A. Kress erfuhr Wadsworth nun, that Archer's CS-Brigade had started moving down Herr Ridge toward Willoughby Run. Even though Col Fowler's 14th Brooklyn (84th New York Infantry; Cutler's Brigade), die bei McPherson's Farm eingesetzt war, had noticed the attack and turned to fire into Archer's flank, only aa few hundred thoroughly exhausted cavalrymen stood between Archer's brigade and McPherson's Ridge (vgl. New: McPherson's Ridge a.a.O., S. 41). Es bestand die akute Gefahr eines Durchbruchs von Archer's brigade durch die dünne US-Front und des Durchbruchs auf Gettysburg. Gen. Wadsworth sent LtCol Kress to fetch the 2nd Brigade of Wadsworth's Division, the famous Iron Brigade (vgl. New: McPherson's Ridge a.a.O., S. 41).
Photo:
James Samuel Wadsworth (Photo vom Matthew Brady; vgl. http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/ngw/wadsworth.htm)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Warner, Ezra J.: Generals in Blue: Lives of Union Commanders, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1964, S. 532
- Kress, John A.: "At Gettysburg," Missouri Republican, St. Louis, December 4, 1886 (diente als Stabsoffizier unter Wadsworth in Gettysburg)
- Library of the Congress, Washington/DC: Civil War Manuscripts, Nr. 980 Wadsworth, James (1768-1844) Family papers, 1730-1952. ca. 7,000 items. Material from the Civil War consists chiefly of letters and documents relating to the service and death of Wadsworth's son, Gen. James Samuel Wadsworth. Includes official orders and commissions; a letter from General Wadsworth to his daughter on the Battle of Chancellorsville; a copy of Wadsworth's report on the Battle of Gettysburg; an account of the Gettysburg campaign, with accompanying sketches of troop positions and maneuvers; a telegram announcing Wadsworth's death in the Battle of the Wilderness; copies of official reports on Wadsworth's death; and letters of condolence to his wife, Mrs. Mary Wharton Wadsworth, from Gens. George G. Meade, Andrew A. Humphreys, and Gouverneur K. Warren, and various public and private citizens. Also includes letters by Robert E. Lee and Wade Hampton on the return of Wadsworth's body and personal effects; memorials and addresses on the life of General Wadsworth; correspondence with the U.S. Treasury Department on the settlement of Wadsworth's accounts; and letters from Capt. Craig W. Wadsworth and James W. Wadsworth to their parents, Aug. - Oct. 1863, concerning generalship and discipline in the Union Army, the suffering of noncombatants, and attitudes toward blacks. Miscellaneous items include a letter from President Lincoln to Horace Greeley, July 9, 1864, promising safe conduct to anyone carrying peace proposals from Jefferson Davis; correspondence of the Union Defense Committee of New York; and an album containing about 200 signed photographs of military and political leaders on both sides of the war. Additional correspondents are John Dix, T. E. Ellsworth, James B. Fry, Preston King, Edwin D. Morgan, H. J. Raymond, Edwin M. Stanton, and Benjamin F. Wade.
Waggaman, Eugene:
CS-Col; aus Louisiana; Planter; im Sommer Major 10th Louisiana Infantry; als Nachfolger von Col Mandeville *Marigny wurde Waggaman Col 10th Louisiana Infantry (vgl. Confederate Military History, a.a.O., vol. X, S. 34).
Wagner, Levi W.:
US-Pvt; Co. A, 1st Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 113).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Wagner, Levi W.: Recollections of an Enlistee, 1861-1864 (Civil War Times Illustrated Collection, U.S. Army Military History Research Collection, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania)
Waid, Joseph Townsend:
US-Pvt, Co. G, 42nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 31).
21.4.1837 Plymouth/Ohio - † 8.3.1914 Waushara County/Wisconsin; Burial: Howes Corners Cemetery, Mount Morris, Waushara County/Wisconsin (vgl. http://www.findagrave.com); Joseph Townsend Waid was born in Plymouth, Ohio on April 21, 1837. He moved with his family to Wisconsin and on October 10, 1861 married Mary Eliza Pooler at Sheridan, Wisconsin. Joseph enlisted in Company G of the 42nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry at Saxeville, Wisconsin and was mustered into service on September 5, 1864 at Madison, Wisconsin. The 42nd left the state September 20, 1864 and proceeded to Cairo, Illinois where it was stationed. On October 25th, several companies were transferred to Springfield, Illinois for Provost duties. Company G was among those sent to Springfield. In April 1865, Joseph was sent back to Cairo along with his company where they were assogned in garrison and guard duties. The 42nd was ordered back to Wisconsin, arriving on June 20, 1865, and was mustered out of service shortly thereafter. Joseph returned to his home and family near Pine River, Waushara County, Wisconsin where he lived out the rest of his life on the farm they had established there (vgl. http://suvcw.org/past/josephtwaid.htm).
°° mit Mary Eliza Pooler Waid (1845 – 1910); Children: Milo G Waid (1862 – 1943), Helen R. Waid Thomas (1864 – 1944), Gilbert A Waid (1867 – 1940), DeForest M Waid (1869 – 1951), Warren Waid (1872 – 1946), Livonia A. Waid Baker (1874 – 1951), Benjamin Walter Waid (1882 – 1969) und Gorette Dirais Waid (1885 – 1964) (vgl. http://www.findagrave.com).
Photo:
Pvt Joseph Townsend Waid (vgl. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, http://suvcw.org/past/josephtwaid.htm).
Wainwright, Charles Sheils:
US-BrigGen; aus New York; Major 1st New York Artillery 17. Oktober 1861; LtCol 30.4.1861; 25.1.1862 Chief of Artillery in Joseph Hooker's Division Army of the Potomac; Col 1.6.1862 (vgl. Boatner, a.a.O., S. 883); Chief of Artillery I Corps, MajGen William B. Franklin's Left Grand Division in der Fredericksburg Campaign im Spätjahr 1862/Anfang 1863 (vgl. Sears: Controversies and Commanders, a.a.O., S. 152).
Wainwright wurde Zeuge der Ereignisse bei der Revolt of Generals gegen MajGen Burnside. Wainwright befand sich am 19.1.1863 im Hauptquartier von MajGen Franklin, damals Kommandeur der Left Grand Division in Burnside's Army of the Potomac; Wainwright berichtet: „Both his staff and Smith's are talking outrageously, only repeating though, no doubt, the words of their generals … As it is, Franklin has talked so much and so loudly to this effect … that he has demoralized his whole command, and so rendered failure ...“ (vgl. Sears: Controversies and Commanders, a.a.O., S. 152).
In der Chancellorsville Campaign war Col Wainwright Chief of Artillery I Corps Army of the Potomac (vgl. Sears: Chancellorsville, a.a.O., Appendix I, p. 453).
Während der Gettysburg Campaign war Wainwright Commander of the I Corps Artillery (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 92); er befehligte zusammen mit Maj. Thomas Osborne (Artilleriekommandeur XI Corps) während Pickett's Charge die nördlichen Artillerieabteilung auf dem Cemetery Hill (vgl. Shultz: "Double Canister at ten Yards." The Federal Artillery and the Repulse of Pickett's Charge, a.a.O., S. 4).
BrigGen 1.8.1864 (Boatner: Civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 883).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Nevins, Allan (ed.): A Diary of Battle. The Personal Journals of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright (New York: Da Capo Press 1998, reprint der Erstausgabe von 1962)
Waite, Carlos A.:
US-Col; aus New York; 1860 / Februar 1861 Col 1st US-Infantry, stationiert Camp Verde, Texas, 60 Meilen von San Antonio entfernt; als die US-Regierung vertraulich von Gen *Twiggs Absicht erfuhr, die US-Truppen und Einrichtungen an die Sezessionisten zu übergeben, ordnete die US-Regierung am 28.1.1861 an, daß Twiggs sein Kommando an Anderson übergeben sollte. Der Befehl erreichte Twiggs erst am 15.2.1861 (vgl. Josephy, a.a.O., S. 24) übernahm im Februar 1861 den Befehl über die US-Truppen in Texas (vgl. Darrow, a.a.O., S. 36)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Darrow, Caroline Baldwin: Recollection of the Twiggs Surrender; in Johnson / Buel, Battles and Leaders, Vol I From Sumter to Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 26
- Josephy: Civil War in American West, a.a.O., S. 24, 28, 29
Waite, Otis F. R.:
US-Major; aus New Hampshire (?)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Waite, Otis F.R. (Major): New Hampshire in the Great Rebellion Containing Histories of the Several New Hampshire Regiments and Biographical Notices of Many of the Prominent Actors in the Civil War of 1861-65 (Claremont 1870)
- Waite, Otis F.R.: Vermont in the Great Rebellion. Historical and Biographical Sketches, etc. (Claremont, N. H. 1869) ( (PDF-Datei in Archiv Ref, Dokumente ameridownload Vermont[Waite].PDF)
Waite, Otis H.:
US-Sergeant, Co. D, 14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment (vgl. National Park Soldiers M535 Roll 16).
Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta:
US-Private; alias Lyons Wakeman; 153rd New York Infantry. Wakeman diente als Mann verkleidet. Private Wakeman was known as Lyons Wakeman until wounded and sent to the hospital where it was discovered he was really a she. Wakeman lies buried in the Chalmette National Cemetery in Metarie Louisiana.
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta (153rd NY Vols): An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Lyons Wakeman, 153rd New State Volunteers, 1862-1864 (Minerva Center, 1994; 1st Edition); edited by Lauren Cook Burgess. 110 pp, Index, Photos. Private Wakeman was known as Lyons Wakeman until wounded and sent to the hospital where it was discovered he was really a she. Wakeman lies buried in the Chalmette National Cemetery in Metarie Louisiana.
Walcott, Charles E.:
US-Captain; Co. B, 21st Regiment Massachusetts Infantry (National Park Soldiers M544 Roll 41).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Walcott, Charles E. (Capt, 21st Mass): History of the Twenty-First Massachusetts Volunteers in the War for the Preservation of the Union 1861-1865 (Boston 1882, 1st Edition)
- **Walcott, Charles: "The Battle of Chantilly," The Virginia Campaign of 1862 under General Pope, ed. Theodore F. Dwight, Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, II (Boston, 1895)
Waldron, Frederick:
US-Pvt; 31st New York Infantry
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Waldron, Frederick: Memoirs, n.d. 1 vol. Undated manuscript memoirs, ca. late 1900s, of Waldron's experiences as a soldier in the 31st New York Regiment. (Virginia Tech, Univ. Libraries, Special Collections: Civil War guide. Manuscript Sources for Civil War Research in the Special Collections Department of the Virginia Tech Libraries Ms 95-011).
Waldrop, Richard W.:
CS-+++; 21st Virginia Infantry (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 103, 578)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Waldrop, Richard W.: Letters. Wartime letters of Richard W. Waldrop, a member of the 21st Virginia Infantry, written throughout the war (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
Walke, Henry H.:
US-Commander, USS-Tyler, dienstältester Schiffsoffizier bei Grant's Battle of Belmont (Catton, Grant moves South, a.a.O., S. 82); beim Angriff auf Fort Donelson im Februar 1862 kommandierte Walke das Gunboat *Carondelet (vgl. Catton: Grant moves South, a.a.O., S. 155; Wallace, Lew: The Capture of Fort Donelson; in: B&L, vol. I, a.a.O., S. 413 ff).
Bei der Yazoo River Expedition Nov. / Dez. 1862 befehligte Walke die Angriffsflotte, deren Ziel es war, durch den Yazoo-River Richtung Grenada vorzustoßen und die CS-Army *Pemberton's abzuschneiden um hierdurch Grant's Vorstoß entlang der Mississippi Central RR zu erleichtern (vgl. Bearss: Hardluck Ironclad, a.a.O., S. 89). Am 25.11.1862 kommandierte Walke eine Flotte von Transportschiffen, Gunboats, Mortars und Flössen die von Memphis, Tennessee aus den Mississippi nach Süden Richtung Yazoo-Mündung fuhren und US-Truppen aus Sherman's Kommando in Memphis transportierten (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, a.a.O., Vol. I, S. 55-56; ORN, Ser. I, Vol. 23, S. 500-01, 506; Bearss: Hardluck Ironclad, a.a.O., S. 88-104).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Walke, Henry H.: Naval Scenes and Reminiscenses of the Civil War in the United States on the Southern and Western Waters, During the Years 1861, 1862 and 1863 (New York, 1877)
- Walke, Henry H.: The Western Flotilla at Fort Donelson, Island Number Ten, Fort Pillow and Memphis; in: B&L, vol. I, a.a.O., S. 430 f.).
Walker, Aldace Freeman:
US-LtCol; 1842-1901
Aldace Freeman Walker (1842-1901) was born in Rutland, Vermont, on May 11, 1842. He prepared for College at Kimball Union Academy and entered Middlebury in 1858 as a member of the Class of 1862. Walker is legend in 19th century Middlebury history as the class valedictorian who arrived in his military uniform to deliver his valedictory address before leaving for the front. In what became a distinguished Civil War career, Walker rose rapidly through the ranks, from 1stLieutenant, Co. B, 11th Regiment, Vermont Volunteers (8/13/1862), to Captain (11/30/1862), Major (6/28/1864), and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel (5/23/1865) (vgl. http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://middhistory.middlebury.edu/files/2012/05/aldace-freeman-walker-class-of-1862).
Following his Civil War service, Walker attended Columbia Law School (1865-1868), and was admitted to the bar in 1868. He practiced law in New York City from 1868-1873 and returned to Vermont to open a practice from 1873-1887. He served as a State Senator from 1884-1885 and was President of the Vermont Bar Association from 1884-1885. Walker served as an Interstate Commerce Commissioner from 1887-1889 and resigned to become the President of the Interstate Commerce Railway Association in Chicago (1889-1892). He served as Chairman of the Western Traffic Association Commissioner of the Joint Traffic Association from 1892-1894, before moving on the Achison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, first as Receiver (1894-1896), then as Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1896-1901 (vgl. http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://middhistory.middlebury.edu/files/2012/05/ aldace-freeman-walker-class-of-1862).
Son of Aldace and Mary Ann (Baker) Walker, Bruder von Mary Manning Walker (1851- † 1925; Schullehrerin; vgl. http://www. findagrave.com); °° 6.9.1871, Aldace Walker married Katherine Shaw, with whom he had two sons and one daughter.
Walker authored The Vermont Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864 (1869), and his Civil War letters to his parents were published in 2002 as Quite ready to be sent somewhere: the Civil War letters of Aldace Freeman Walker, edited by Thomas Ledoux.
US-Surgeon Willard A. *Child (10th Vermont Infantry Regiment) ist wohl ein Cousin von Col. Aldace Freeman *Walker; dessen Großmutter väterlicherseits war Cloe Child (vgl. Ledoux: „Quite ready to be sent somewhere“. The Civil War Letters of Aldace Freeman Walker, a.a.O., S. 22 Anm. 26). Cloe Child Walker (28.5.1767 Woodstock/Connecticut - † 1.9.1843 Strafford/Vermont, beerd. Strafford Cemetery) war die Tochter von Elisha Child und Alice Manning Child; °° 31.3.1790 in Woodstock mit Leonhard Walker. Aus der Ehe stammen 10 Kinder, darunter der Sohn Aldace Walker (vgl. www.findagrave, Stichwort Cloe Child Walker).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Ledoux, Tom: „Quite ready to be sent somewhere“. The Civil War Letters of Aldace Freeman Walker. Victoria/Canada, 2002
- Rutland Herald vom 16.4.1901: „Col. Walker's Funeral“
- **Walker, Aldace Freeman: The Vermont Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley (Free Press Association, Burlington/Vt., 1869; reprint)
Walker, Alexander:
CS-Journalist aus New Orleans; Walker begleitete in Battle of Shiloh das Army Corps Polk (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 166, 277)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Walker, Alexander: "Narrative of the Battle of Shiloh;" in; Diary of the War for Separation (Vicksburg, 1905)
Walker, Ansom J.:
US-Lt, 6th Kansas Cavalry; im Mai 1862 beteiligt an der Festnahme des früheren Captain der 7th Kansas Cavalry (US) und jetzigen Räubers Marshall *Cleveland, in Osawatomie am 10.5.1862. Walker hatte sich in Zivilkleidern und unter Decknamen nach Osawatomie begeben und den Aufenthalt Cleveland's ermittelt. Walker hatte sich dort mit Cleveland angefreundet und dessen genauen Aufenthalt seinem Vorgesetzten Captain H. S. *Greeno gemeldet. Cleveland konnte umzingelt und festgenommen werden und wurde bei einem anschließenden Fluchtversuch erschossen (vgl. Starr, Jennison's Jayhawkers, a.a.O., S. 25).
Walker, David:
CS-Politiker aus Fayetteville / Arkansas, 1806-1879); Judge; Following his 1830 arrival in Fayetteville from his native Kentucky, Walker enjoyed a lengthy career and impressive record in public service. Among other positions, he served as state senator, chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, and president of the Arkansas Secession Convention of 1861. He married Jane Lewis Washington of Green Ridge, Kentucky, in 1833. Making their home in Fayetteville, the couple had eight children before Jane's death in 1847. Two sons served in the Confederate army: Captain Jacob Wythe *Walker, Company A, Thirty-fourth Arkansas Infantry, who was killed at the battle of Jenkins' Ferry (Grant County), May 21, 1864, and Private Charles Whiting *Walker, also of Company A, Thirty-fourth Arkansas Infantry.
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Walker, David: Letters, 1841-1879; 93 items. Correspondence to and from Judge David Walker (1806-1879) of Fayetteville (Washington County). The letters in this collection include five written during the spring of 1861 pertaining to the secession movement, three written during the summer of 1863 relating to Judge Walker's appointment to a Confederate military court in Little Rock, and one written in the summer of 1865 from George C. Watkins at Corsicana, Texas, when he had been arrested for treason. Many of these letters have been published by Walter J. Lemke as "The Life and Letters of Judge David Walker" (Fayetteville, Arkansas: Washington County Historical Society, 1957) (Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Manuscript Resources for the Civil War, Compiled by Kim Allen Scott, 1990)
- **Walker Family. Papers, 1833-1962; 63 items. Letters and personal papers relating to the David Walker family of Washington County. The materials in this collection were donated by descendants of Charles Whiting *Walker. One letter, written by Charles in February 1860 in Lebanon, Tennessee, describes local excitement over the secession crisis in that location. Among the manuscript essays in the collection are two addresses delivered by Charles (circa 1907) concerning Civil War history, and an unsigned article about bushwhackers operating near Huntsville (Madison County) during the war. Miscellaneous documents in the collection include a January 27, 1864, appointment of David Walker to a military court under Lieutenant General Theophilus H. Holmes, and an application for membership to the United Daughters of the Confederacy completed by Nancy Walker Warren, the daughter of Charles Walker. (Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Manuscript Resources for the Civil War, Compiled by Kim Allen Scott, 1990)
- **Walker, Sue H.: Papers, 1818-1936; 1 linear foot. Letters and papers collected by Susan Howard Walker (1857-1939), daughter of James David Walker and granddaughter of Judge David Walker. Correspondence in the collection includes an April 27, 1864, letter from David Walker to a friend in Texas, written on the day his son Jacob died at Jenkins' Ferry, and another written by Sue Walker to historian David Yancey Thomas (circa 1935) detailing her recollections of Civil War incidents in Fayetteville (Washington County). Five Civil War military documents are found in the collection: three receipts for destroyed cotton in Pulaski County by Confederate authorities; General Order Number 1, issued by Colonel M. LaRue Harrison, First Arkansas Cavalry (Union), at Fayetteville (Washington County) June 16, 1864; and an oath of allegiance signed by Mary K. Stone, Fayetteville, June 20, 1864. Two printed broadsides in the collection pertain to the Civil War; a July 24, 1851, copy of the Arkansas Whig-Extra, published in Little Rock (Pulaski County), which discusses the disunion sentiment in the state at that time, and a December 30, 1862, copy of Albert Pike's Letter to General Holmes, printed on a sheet of wallpaper (Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Manuscript Resources for the Civil War, Compiled by Kim Allen Scott, 1990)
Walker, Charles:
US-Sergeant; Co. B, 7td Regiment Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 31). Walker geb. in Heptonstall, Yorkshire/ England wanderte 1858 in die USA aus und settled in Reedsburg/Wisconsin; † 1902 (vgl. Herdegen: The Men Stood like Iron, a.a.O., S. 219n10).
Walker, Charles:
US-Pvt; Co. B, 33rd Regiment Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 31).
Walker, Charles A.:
US-Pvt; Co. I, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 31).
Walker, Charles H.:
US-Major; Co. K, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 31).
Walker, Charles L.:
US-Pvt; Co. K&A, 5th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 31).
Walker, Charles M.:
US-Pvt; Co. F, 25th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 31).
Walker, Charles R.:
US-Pvt; Co. D, 42nd Regiment Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 31).
Walker, Charles Whiting:
CS-Pvt; Co A, 34th Arkansas Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M376 Roll 24); Sohn von David *Walker und Bruder von Captain Jacob Wythe *Walker (s. Angaben bei David *Walker).
Walker, Elijah:
US-Col; 4th Regiment Maine Infantry; zunächst Captain Co. B (vgl. National Park Soldiers M543 Roll 22).
Urkunden/Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Walker, Elijah: Letter to John Bachelder, January 5, 1885, Bachelder Papers, New Hampshire Historical Society Account
Walker, Francis Amasa:
US-BrigGen; 1840-1897; Pvt. And Sergeant Major 15th Massachusetts Infantry 1.8.1861; Captain and AAG 14.9.1861; Major AAG 11.8.1862; LtCol AAG 1.1.1863-9.1.1865; Bvt BrigGen USV (Chancellorsville and War Service). He was wounded at Chancellorsville, captured and held in Libby Prison for a time. „He became a foremost figure in the new inductive and historical school of economics“ (D.A.B.). As an economic theorist, professor (Yale 1873-81) and president of M.I.T. (1881-97), he won recognition for the idea of a technical education. He was chief of the Bureau of Statistics in 1869 and when, in 1871, the funds were not available to continue, Pres. Grant appointed him Commissioner of Indian Affairs while he continued to work for the census of 1870, for which results he received international recognition as a statistician. He was an adherent of international bimetalism and worked to offset the free-coinage movement of 1896 (Boatner: Dictionary, p. 884).
Documents/Literature:
- Walker, Francis A. Walker: History of the Second Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac (New York, NY, 1886)
Walker, George John:
CS-MajGen; 1822-1893. Unlike most of his comrades, Missourian John Walker received his education outside West Point in the Jesuit College in St. Louis. He entered the army after he received a commission in 1846. A captain when the Civil War broke out, Walker threw in his lot with the Confederate States, becoming a lieutenant colonel in the 8th Texas Cavalry. By the summer of 1862, he was commissioned a brigadier and took command of a division in Lee’s army. He served with Jackson during the campaign in Maryland, and was charged with taking Loudoun Heights during the operation against *Harpers Ferry. After being promoted to the rank of major general, he was shipped out west to join the Trans-Mississippi Department and led the Texas Infantry Division. Walker helped Kirby Smith to thwart the designs of the hapless Nathaniel Banks. He then commanded the District of West Louisiana and the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before the end of the war. After fleeing briefly to Mexico, he returned to serve the Federal Government as Consul-General to Colombia and commissioner in the Pan-American Convention (aus Cannan, Antietam, a.a.O., S. 87).
Walker. Henry Harrison:
15.10.1832 Sussex County, VA - † 22.3.1912 Morris Town , NJ; CS-BrigGen; graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1853, forty-first in a class of fifty-two. On 1.7.1853, he was appointed a brevet second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment. On 3.3.1855, he became a full grade second lieutenant in the 6th U.S. Infantry Regiment. Walker was promoted to first lieutenant on 1.5.1857. Walker served in garrison duty on the frontier. He also was aide-de-camp to the governor of Kansas during the border conflicts of the middle to late 1850s as a result of which the territory was called "Bleeding Kansas" (vgl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Northern_Virginia).
In November 1861, Walker was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 40th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was promoted to colonel of the regiment in June 1862 and led the men in the Seven Days Battles. On 27.6.1862, he was wounded twice at the Battle of Gaines Mill. He was assigned to command of a convalescent camp and then to the Defenses of Richmond, Virginia between September 1862 and 1.7.1863. During the Gettysburg campaign, Walker armed hundreds of the convalescents and helped guard Richmond while almost all healthy troops were on the campaign (vgl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Northern_Virginia).
On 1.7.1863, Walker was promoted to brigadier general and after the Gettysburg campaign was assigned to Major General Henry Heth's division of III Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, initially commanding Heth's former brigade, then Brigadier General James J. Archer's brigade as well, after Archer's grievous wounding. Walker served as a brigade commander under Heth until he lost his left foot in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House on May 10, 1864. He participated in the Battle of Bristoe Station on October 14, 1863, in the Battle of Mine Run and, after serving in the Shenandoah Valley during the winter of 1864–1864, at the Battle of the Wilderness before his wounding at Spotsylvania Court House (vgl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Northern_Virginia).
Walker served on court martial duty in the Department of Richmond from 7.11.1864. He was assigned to the defense of the Richmond and Danville Railroad during the Siege of Petersburg from February 1865 to the evacuation of Richmond on the night of 2.4.1865 after the fall of the defenses of Petersburg, Virginia at the Battle of Five Forks and the Third Battle of Petersburg. He was reported to have brought the news of the surrender of General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 9.4.1865 to Confederate President Jefferson Davis at Danville, Virginia. Davis ordered Walker to take the Confederate troops at Danville to join the force of General Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina but Walker apparently did not comply with the futile order or was unable to comply with it before Johnston surrendered to Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman on 18.4.1865 (officially April 26, 1865).[5] Walker was paroled at Richmond, Virginia on 7.5.1865 (vgl. http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/ Army_of_Northern_Virginia).
After the Civil War, Walker moved to New Jersey and became an investment broker. Henry Harrison Walker died at Morristown, New Jersey on 22.3.1912. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery at Morristown (vgl. http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/ Army_of_Northern_Virginia).
Walker, Jacob Wythe:
CS-Captain; Co A 34th Arkansas Infantry; gefallen at the battle of Jenkins' Ferry (Grant County), May 21, 1864; Sohn von David *Walker und Bruder von Charles Whiting *Walker
Urkunden/Literatur:
s. Angaben bei David *Walker
Walker, James Alexander:
CS-BrigGen; zunächst Captain Co. C, 4th Regiment Virginia Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 57), dann LtCol, Co. F&S, 13th Regiment Virginia Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 57); Col 13th Regiment Virginia Infantry seit Februar 1862 (vgl. Boatner: Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 884).
27.8.1832 Augusta County / Virginia -1901. Parents: Alexander Walker and Hannah Hinton. Paternal grandparents: John Walker and Elizabeth Connelly. Maternal grandparents: Benjamin Hinton and Sarah Hopkins. Entered Virginia Military Institut (VMI) on August 23. 1848; court-martialed and dismissed May 1852, for disobedience in the classroom of Maj. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson; he subsequently challenged Jackson to a duel; granted honorary degree in 1872 in recognition of his war career. Walker's Konflikt mit Jackson im VMI ist in mehreren Quellen erwähnt, aber die Escalation, bei der Walker Jackson mit Ermordung drohte, was Jackson veranlaßte eine Pistole bei sich zu tragen, ist nur in Manuskript-Anmerkungen bei Jedediah Hotchkiss erwähnt (vgl. Krick: Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 406 Anm. 48; Hotchkiss Papers, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., S. 333; Pfanz: Ewell, a.a.O., S. 166).
Studied law at the University of Virginia (1854-1855) and began the practice of law in Newbern, Pulaski Co., Virginia. Marriage. In 1858, Sarah A. Poague [Poage] of Augusta Co., Virginia. They had six children. Elected Commonwealth’s Attorney for Pulaski Co. in 1860.
Civil War: Organized Pulaski Guards which became Co. C of the 4th Virginia Infantry; commissioned Lt. Col. 13th Virginia Infantry, Col 13th Virginia Infantry seit Februar 1862 (vgl. Boatner, a.a.O., S. 884); Walker's Regiment gehörte während Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign im Frühling 1862 zur Brigade Arnold *Elzey, Division Ewell (vgl. Pfanz: Ewell, a.a.O., S. 166); im Battle of Cedar Mountain am 9.8.1862 war Walker als Col Regimentskommandeur der 13th Virginia Infantry, Brigade Early (vgl. Hassler: A. P. Hill, a.a.O., S. 78; OR., 12, Part 2, S. 219-220; Krick: Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 51, 56-58, 61, 75-76, 84-85, 128, 132-34, 194-98, 200-201, 252-55, 261-63, 283-85, 299, 337, 353, 362, 368’s Division.
Post-war:
Resumed law practice in Newbern; active in local and state politics; served two terms in state legislature; 1877 elected Lieutenant Govenor of Virginia, serving until 1881, 1895-1899 served in U.S. Congress; died at Wytheville, Virginia on October 20, 1901.
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Internet Datei Archiv 9, Personenglossar, Walker
- Internet Datei: Stonewall Jackson at the Virginia Military Institut; Archiv 9 Personenglossar Jackson Nr. 2, beinhaltend auch das James A. *Walker Court Martial
Walker, John L.:
US-Pvt; Co. H, 50th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 113).
Walker war in Kriegsgefangenschaft im Cahaba Prison und erlebte dort die Tage der Überflutung des Gefängnisses (vgl. Potter: Sultana Tragedy, a.a.O., S. 17).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Walker, John L.: Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster, Hamilton/OH: 1910)
Walker, John G.:
CS-MajGen; bei Lee's Maryland Campaign im September 1862 wurde Walker mit 2 Brigaden aus Richmond zur Verstärkung Lee unterstellt (vgl. Sears: Landscape Turned Red, a.a.O., S. 67). Walker sollte beim Stoß gegen Harper's Ferry gem. Lee's Befehl Nr. 191 mit seiner Division zunächst die Kanalbrücke des Chesapeake & Ohio Canal über den Monocacy River zerstören und dann über den Potomac von Osten gegen Harper's Ferry vorstoßen, um die östlich der Stadt gelegenen Loudoun Heights besetzen (vgl. Sears, a.a.O., S. 90). Bei der Zerstörung der massiv gebauten Brücke traten jedoch Schwierigkeiten auf, da die aus massivem Granit gebaute Kanalbrücke der Zerstörung widerstand. Um den Zeitplan der Eroberung von Harper's Ferry nicht durcheinander zu bringen, brach Walker den Versuch ab, die Kanalbrücke zu zerstören (vgl. Sears, a.a.O., S. 95).
Walker verteidigte während der Red River Campaign 1864 das *Fort de Russy am unteren Red River.
Walker, John H.:
US-Captain; 126th Pennsylvania Infantry; verwundet im Battle of Fredericksburg beim Sturm auf den Stonewall (vgl. Gallagher u.a.: Fredericksburg, a.a.O., S. 96).
Walker, John S.:
US-LtCommander zur See; Kommandant des Ironclad USS Baron De Kalb (vgl. Bearss: Hardluck Ironclad, a.a.O., S. 91).
Walker, Leroy Pope:
CS-BrigGen; Politiker aus Huntsville / Alabama, 1861 CS-Kriegsminister (McPherson S. 306; Alexander: Fighting for the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 35); Walker unternahm enorme Anstrengungen beim Aufbau der Armee aus dem Nichts und der Schaffung einer Kriegsindustrie (die im agrarischen Süden vor dem Krieg völlig fehlte); für die anfangs völlig ungenügende Versorgungslage wurde er dennoch verantwortlich gemacht und trat als »Sündenbock«, aufgerieben von der ständigen Kritik und Überarbeitung im September 1961 zurück (McPherson S. 310). Im Februar 1862 war BrigGen mit Hauptquartier in Tuscumbia verantwortlich für die Sicherung von North-Alabama; die wenigen zur Verfügung stehenden Kräfte bestanden aus der 1st Alabama Cavalry, einem schlecht bewaffneten Arkansas Battalion in Tuscumbia und zwei 24-pounder Siege Guns (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 69).
Walker, Lindsay:
CS-Capt; aus Richmond, 1861 Chef der Purcell's Battery of Artillery; eingesetzt am 29.5.1861 im Kampf gegen US-Gunboats bei Aquia Creek, darunter die USS Pawnee (vgl. Worsham, John H.: "One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry, a.a.O., S. 8, 11).
Walker, Lucius Marshall:
CS-BrigGen.; 18.10.1829 Columbia/Tenn. - † 7.9.1863 mortally wounded in a duel with fellow general John S. Marmaduke.
He was a nephew of President James K. Polk. Walker graduated from the United States Military Academy West Point in 1850, placing 15th of a class of 44. He was brevetted second lieutenant of dragoons and served on frontier duty. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1852, shortly before resigning to return to Tennessee, where he established a successful mercantile business. Walker lived in St Francis County, Arkansas at the time of his enlistment (vgl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_M._Walker).
With the outbreak of the Civil War, Walker was commissioned Colonel of the 40th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry on November 11, 1861. His first assignment was to command the post at Memphis. In 1862, he and his 40th Tennessee were ordered to New Madrid, Missouri to prepare for the Battle of Island Number Ten. Walker was commissioned brigadier general on March 11, 1862, and was posted at Kentucky Bend, with the command of the 40th Tennessee falling to Lt. Col. C. C. Henderson. He retreated in the face of a much larger Union force, which threatened to capture all of Walker's command. Being forced to surrender at Island #10, Walker was exchanged and rejoined the army at Corinth, Mississippi, before it retreated to Tupelo. At the May 9, 1862, Battle of Farmington, his brigade attacked and drove a Union force from its entrenchments. He was reassigned to the Trans-Mississippi Departmenton March 23, 1863, commanding a brigade of cavalry under Lt. Gen. Theophilus Holmes at the Battle of Helena (vgl. http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Lucius_M._Walker).
After the Battle of Reed's Bridge on August 26, 1863, Brig. Gen. John S. Marmaduke accused Walker of imperiling Marmaduke's men by being absent from the field in the face of the enemy. Walker, judging from the indications that the enemy was about to flank his position, had withdrawn his troops after dark. Walker felt that he had been unjustly accused of cowardice and challenged Marmaduke to a formal duel. “I have not pronounced you a coward,” Marmaduke wrote, “but I desire to inform you that your conduct as commander of the cavalry was such that I determined no longer to serve you.” Maj. Gen. Sterling Price ordered both officers to remain in their quarters in an attempt to prevent the duel. However by an unfortunate series of mishaps, the orders were not delivered to Walker. At dawn on Sunday, September 6, Walker and Marmaduke squared off with Colt Navy revolvers on the north bank of the Arkansas River near Little Rock. Both fired and missed. Marmaduke then recocked and fired a second time, mortally wounding Walker in the right side, just above the beltline. Walker forgave Marmaduke when the latter offered his assistance. As General Walker lay dying, his wife rode from St. Francis to Little Rock, and gave birth to their son, Lucius Marshall Walker, Jr. Lucius M. Walker died at 5 p.m. the next day. He is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis (vgl. http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Lucius_M._Walker). Col. Bob Crockett war Sekundant Walker's, während Maj. Henry Ewing dem Kontrahenten Marmaduke sekundierte (vgl. Banasik, Michel E. (ed.): Missouri Brothers in Gray. The Reminiscenses and Letters of William J. Bull and John P. Bull, Iowa City 1998, S. 61).
Bruder von Col J. K. Walker. Gen. Frank C. Armstrong married Maria Polk Walker, daughter of Confederate Col. Joseph Knox Walker, the brother of Lucius Marshall Walker. Col. J. K. Walker died on August 21, 1863 (vgl. http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Lucius_M._Walker).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Bailey, Anne: „Lucius Marshall Walker“, in: Confederate General, vol. 6, S. 92-93
- Boatner: Civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 885
- Warner: Generals in Grey, a.a.O., S. 322-323
Walker, Robert J.:
Rechtsanwalt und Politiker aus Mississippi; Democratic Party; US-Finanzminister unter Präsident Polk. Walker trat für niedrige Einfuhrzölle (*Tariffs, *Nullification) ein, vertrat die Idee des Freihandels und war gegen die Schutzzollpolitik (vgl. Nevins, Emergence of Lincoln, vol. I, a.a.O., S. 224). Walker war politisch beteiligt an der Annexion von Texas und an entscheidend tätig für die Finanzierung des Mexikokrieges. Er trat politisch für die Expansion USA nach Westen und Südwesten ein. Walker war im Norden geboren, vom Süden adoptiert und ein überzeugter Unionist. Mitte der 1850er Jahre war er Congress-Abgeordneter in Washington (vgl. Nevins: Emergence of Lincoln, vol. I, a.a.O., S. 145-46). Walker war kein entschiedener Freund der Sklaverei, sondern ein Anhänger der stufenweisen Emanzipation (Nevins, a.a.O., S. 145). Im Süden warf man ihm in dieser Frage eine lauwarme Haltung vor. Walker war einer der Kandidaten für das Amt des Außenministers in der Regierung Buchanan, unterlag jedoch schließlich dem aus Georgia stammenden Lewis Cass. Insbesondere im Norden waren Meinungen laut geworden, die seine Umgebung und seine Verbindungen zu Eisenbahnspekulanten kritisierten (vgl. Nevins: Emergence of Lincoln, vol. I, a.a.O., S. 69-70).
Im März 1857 wurde Walker von Präsident Buchanan zum Nachfolger des zurückgetretenen Governors im Kansas Territory, John W. Geary bestimmt (vgl. Nevins, a.a.O., S. 144-46). Walker trat im November 1857 von seinem Amt zurück, nachdem die Regierung Buchanan entgegen die *Lecompton Constitution ohne Volksabstimmung in Kansas anerkannte, obwohl die Walker zuvor gegebenen Direktiven eine Volksabstimmung vorgesehen hatten (vgl. Nevins, a.a.O., S. 241).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Brown, George W.: The Reminiscenses of Gov. R. J. Walker
- Jordan, H. Donaldson: "A Politician of Expansion: Robert J. Walker," Miss. Valley Hist. Review, V (1918), S. 158-189
- Morris, A. B.: "R. J. Walker in the Kansas Struggle," MS Dissertation University of Chicago
- Nevins: Emergence of Lincoln, vol. I, a.a.O., S. 69-70, 144-146
Walker, R. L.:
CS-LtCol: Walker befehligte im Battle of Cedar Mountain am 9.8.1862 die Artillery von A. P. Hill's Light Division (Battles and Leaders Vol. II S. 496)
Walker, Mary Jane:
Proprietor of Walker's Book Store, 102 Dauphin Street, Mobile / Alabama (vgl. Williams: This War is so Horrible, a.a.O., S. 23 u. 142 Anm. 1)
Walker, Samuel:
US-Bvt. BrigGen; 1.6.1861 Capt. 1st Kansas, 24.5.1862 Major 5th Kansas Cavalry (vgl. zu den Kämpfen mit ihm: Hord, B. M. in: Confederate Veteran Vol. I March 1893, S. 75); 8.10.1864 LtCol 16th Kansas Cavalry., Bvt BrigGen USA (war service); gestorben 1983 (Confederate Veteran Vol. I March 1893, S. 75).
Walker, Timothy:
US-Pvt; 25th Maine Infantry
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Walker, Timothy: Letter, 1864. Union soldier with the 25th Maine Volunteer Infantry. Letter written April 20, 1864, from Georgetown in Washington, D.C. to a friend in Maine. Writes about getting coal in Alexandria, Virginia, and his hopes that the war ends soon. (Virginia Tech, Univ. Libraries, Special Collections: Civil War guide. Manuscript Sources for Civil War Research in the Special Collections Department of the Virginia Tech Libraries Ms 91-021).
Walker, Walton H.:
US-Pvt; Battery F, 3rd Regiment New York Light Artillery
Photo:
- US Army Heritage and Education Center USAHEC, Carlisle Barracks/PA, Civil War Photograph Collection RG625S-.80
Walker, William:
amerikanischer Freibeuter und Glücksritter; scheiterte 1853 mit dem Versuch, das mexikanische Niederkalifornien (Baja California) und das Gebiet um Sonora für die USA zu erobern. Nach dem Scheitern dieses Versuch unternahm Walker 1855 den Versuch zur Eroberung Nicaraguas, riß 1856 die Regierungsgewalt an sich und ernannte sich zum Oberbefehlshaber der Armee. Im Mai 1856 gewährte die Regierung Pierce der Regierung Walker die diplomatische Anerkennung. Nach Versuchen mehrerer mittelamerikanischer Staaten, die Regierung Walkers zu stürzen, ließ Walker die in Nicaragua die Sklaverei wieder zu, was ihm intensive Unterstützung im Süden der USA sicherte. Dennoch brach sein Versuch, trotz intensiver Rekrutierung im Süden der USA, aufgrund einer Cholera-Epidemie, zu zur Vernichtung von Walkers Truppen führte, zusammen. Walker kehrte in den Süden der USA zurück, wo er als Held gefeiert wurde. 1857 brach Walker zu einem zweiten Nicaragua-Feldzug auf, doch die US-Marine unter Captain Paulding holte seine Flotte ein und erzwang die Rückkehr. Eine dritte Invasion Nicaraguas, mit intensiver Unterstützung aus den Südstaaten, scheitere 1858 aufgrund einer Havarie seines Schiffes. Ein vierter Versuch mit wenigen Getreuen endete in der Vorbereitungsphase in Honduras, wo sich Walker aufgrund von Feindseligkeiten seitens der honduranischen Bevölkerung, einem britischen Marinekapitän ergab. Dieser lieferte Walker an Nicaragua aus, wo er am 12.9.1860 exekutiert wurde (vgl. McPherson: Für die Freiheit, a.a.O., S. 101-105).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Brown, Charles H.: Agents of Manifest Destiny. The Lives and Times of the Filibusters (Chapel Hill, 1980)
- Carr, Albert Z.: The World and William Walker (New York, 1963)
- May, Robert E.: The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire 1854-1861 (Baton Rouge, 1973)
- McPherson: Für die Freiheit, a.a.O., S. 101-105
- Rosengarten, Frederic: Freebosters must Die! The Life and Death of William Walker (Wayne, ÖPa., 1976)
- Scoggs, William O.: Filibusters and Financiers. The Story of William Walker and his Associates (New York, 1916)
- Walker, William: The War in Nicaragua (New York, 1860)
Walker, William W.:
US-Captain, 1st Indiana Cavalry (vgl. Bearss, Vicksburg Campaign, a.a.O., I 80). Walker führte am 28..1.1862 den Nachtangriff auf CS-Major Greene L. *Blythe's 1st Battalion Mississippi State Troops, bei Polkville an der Mündung des Tullahatchie (vgl. Bearss, a.a.O., I 80; Karte bei Davis Nr. 154 E 9). Walker führte die Vorhut beim Vorstoß der US-Truppen gegen Oakland (nördlich Grenada), die auf John S. Griffith's Cavalry Brigade am 3.12.1862 traf (vgl. Bearss, a.a.O., S. 90).
Wall, H. C.:
CS-Captain, 23rd North Carolina Infantry
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Wall, H. C. (Captain 23rd NC Infantry): Historical Sketch of the Pee Dee Guards (Olde Soldier Books). 100 pp. The 23rd North Carolina served in Garland's, Iverson's, R. D. Johnson's Brigade and Hill's, Rode's Division. In early 1864, they were sent to N. Carolina to recruit and arrest deserters and returned to fight at Petersburg and Appomattox
Wallace, Alex M.:
CS-Col (vgl. Fisher: War at Every Door, a.a.O., S. 70).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Wallace, Alex M.: Letters (US Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle / Pennsylvania)
Wallace, Frederick Stephen:
US-Major; zunächst Captain Co. A, 61st Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 113); später Major, Co. F&S, 82nd Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 113).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Wallace, Frederick Stephen: The Sixty-first Ohio Volunteers, 1861-1865. Marysville, Oh.: published privately, 1902.
Wallace, Harold Lewis "Lew":
US-MajGen; Autor des Erfolgsroman „Ben Hur“; CS-Politiker; Sohn des Indiana Governor David Wallace (vgl. Thornbrough: Indiana in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 127). 1861 Col 11th Indiana Infantry (vgl. Thornbrough: Indiana in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 125, 128); Divisionskommandeur (3. Division) bei der Eroberung von Fort Donelson (vgl. US Grant, Battles and Leaders Vol. I S. 429); am 12.3.1862 erhielt Wallace vom Interims-Kommandeur MajGen Smith (während der Kommando-Entbindung von US. Grant) den Befehl, mit seiner Division nach *Crumb's Landing vorzugehen, um einen Cavalry-Raid auf die Ohio & Baltimore Railroad zu unterstützen (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 78 ff). Im Battle of Shiloh erntete Wallace harte Kritik, weil seine Truppen verspätet auf dem Schlachtfeld erschienen. Aufgrund einer Konfusion von Befehlen verbrauchte Wallace einen ganzen Tag, um seine Truppen über eine kurze Distanz zu verschieben und erschien erst am Ende des ersten Tages der Schlacht auf dem Schlachtfeld (vgl. Thornbrough: Indiana in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 148).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- McKee, Irving: "Ben-Hur" Wallace: The Life of General Lew Wallace (Berkeley, 1947)
- Wallace, Harold Lew: "Lew Wallace's March to Shiloh Revisited", Indiana Magazine of History, LIX (1963): 19-30
- **Wallace, Lew: The Capture of Fort Donelson; in Battles and Leaders, Vol. I S. 398-428
- **Wallace, Lew: An Autobiography (2 vols, Harper and Brothers: New York, 1906)
- Wallace, Harold Lewis: Papers (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis)
Wallace, James C.:
US-Pvt; Co. I, 6th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 31); Wallace stammte aus DeSoto/Wis.; er war „among the first to break down with disease“ and be discharged (vgl. Herdegen/Beaudot: Bloody Railroad Cut, a.a.O., S. 45).
Wallace, James T.:
1843-1911 (vgl. https://localwiki.org/oakland/James_T_Wallace); CS-+++; Teilnahme am Angriff auf Helena/Ark im Juni 1863 (vgl. Banasik, Michel E. (ed.): Missouri Brothers in Gray. The Reminiscenses and Letters of William J. Bull and John P. Bull, Iowa City 1998, S. 54 Anm. 144).
In der Nachkriegszeit war Wallace Wallace was a Professor (and possibly a librarian) at the California College in Oakland, a Baptist College that later became the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School (vgl. https://localwiki.org/oakland/James_T_Wallace).
Urkunden/Urkunden/Literatur:
- Wallace, James T.: Diary 1862-1865. Southern Historical Society Collection. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Wallace, William Harvey Lamb:
US-BrigGen; 1821-1862; Wallace stammte aus Ohio (vgl. Boatner, a.a.O., S. 887); lebte jedoch dann in aus La Salle County / Illinois; Wallace war ein erfolgreicher Anwalt; er bezog mit seiner jungen Frau, die aus der prominenten Dickey Family aus Illinois stammten, ein schönes Haus bei Ottawa / Illinois, genannt 'Robin's Nest. Bei Kriegsausbruch Col 11th Illinois Infantry. Auf Befehl Grant's stand er im September 1861 mit seinem Regiment in Bird's Point zusammen mit Col Richard *Ogleby's 8th Illinois Infantry (vgl. Hicken: Illinois in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 19; Catton: Grant Moves South, a.a.O., S. 41).
Am 21.3.1862 zum BrigGen befördert. Unmittelbar bei Beginn der Schlacht von Shiloh (6./7.4.1862) erschien seine junge Frau zu Besuch bei Pittsburg Landing. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt war Wallace Divisionskommandeur der 2nd Division in Grant's Army of the Tennessee. Die Division Wallace wurde bereits am ersten Tag der Schlacht in schwere Kämpfe verwickelt. Am späten Nachmittag versuchte Wallace einen Teil seiner Truppen im Rückzug aus 'Hornet's Nest' herauszuführen, als er am Kopf von einem Splitter getroffen wurde. Die ganze Nacht über lag der Schwerverwundete hinter den CS-Linien, bis er am nächsten Tag während Grant's Gegenangriff gefunden wurde. Er wurde sterbend und bewußtlos nach Pittsburg Landing zurückgebracht, und seiner dort wartenden Frau übergeben. Wallace starb wenige Tage später am 10.4.1862 in Savannah / Tennessee (vgl. Hicken: Illinois in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. xv-xvi).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Wallace-Dickey Papers: Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield / Illinois
Wallach, W. Douglas:
US-Zeitungsverleger in Washington, DC.; stammte aus Virginia und war Eigentümer einer Farm bei Culpeper, Va; Eigentümer und Herausgeber des Washington Evening Star, die meist gelesene Zeitung in Washington während des Krieges. Ursprünglich eine Democrat, unterstützte Wallach intensiv die Lincoln Regierung. Nach Kriegsausbruch unterrichtete er die US-Regierung von CS. Truppenbewegungen nach Norden bei seiner Farm nahe Culpeper (vgl. Burlingame/Ettlinger: Inside Lincoln's White House. The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay, a.a.O., S. 275 Anm. 30).
Wallar, Francis Ashbury "Frank":
US-Corporal; Co I, 6th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 31); auch "Waller" (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 132); † 20.4.1911 South Carolina (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 624n283); Co I 6th Wisconsin Infantry; am 1.7.1863 Teilnahme am Flankenangriff des Regiments beim Bloody Railroad Cut; hierbei eroberte Wallar die Regimentsfahne der 2nd Mississippi Infantry von Fahnenträger W. B. *Murphy und erhielt hierfür die Medal of Honor (vgl. Beyer / Keydel: Deeds of Valor, a.a.O., S. 556; Dawes: Full Blown Yankee, a.a.O., S. 169; Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 132; Murphy, W. B.: Letter v. 29.9.1900 am F. A. Dearborn; in: E. S. Bragg Papers, State Historical Society of Wisconsin).
Bruder von Sergeant Samuel *Waller (Co. I, 6th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry); zum Unterschied der Schreibweise: Wallar's name is spelled 'Waller' and 'Wallar' in various Wisconsin records. Both Frank and Samuel 'Waller' are listed in Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, p. 529 and 532. However, the Descriptive Book for the 6th Wisconsin lists 'Frank Waller' and Samuel 'Wallar'. Wallar is the spelling used of a tombstone erected b y his family (vgl. Herdegen/Beaudot: Bloody Railroad Cut, a.a.O., S. 45n4).
Born in east central Ohio, Wallar and his brother had come to Wisconsin with their parents, David and Marian, in the early 1840s, when the family sought opportunity and land in the new state (vgl. Herdegen/Beaudot: Bloody Railroad Cut, a.a.O., S. 45).
Photo:
- Herdegen/Beaudot: In the Bloody Railroad Cut, a.a.O., S. xiv
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Beaudot, William J. K.: "Francis Ashbury Waller: A Medal of Honor at Gettysburg"; in: Gettysburg Magazine, No. 4, July 1990: 16-21 (zur Biographie von Waller)
- Wallar, Francis A.: "A Settled Question", Milwauckee Sunday Telegraph, 29 July 1883
Waller, Samuel G.:
US-Sergeant; Co. I, 6th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 31).
Bruder von Corporal Frank A. *Wallar (Co. I, 6th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry); zum Unterschied der Schreibweise: Wallar's name is spelled 'Waller' and 'Wallar' in various Wisconsin records. Both Frank and Samuel 'Waller' are listed in Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, p. 529 and 532. However, the Descriptive Book for the 6th Wisconsin lists 'Frank Waller' and Samuel 'Wallar'. Wallar is the spelling used of a tombstone erected b y his family (vgl. Herdegen/Beaudot: Bloody Railroad Cut, a.a.O., S. 45n4).
Born in east central Ohio, Wallar and his brother had come to Wisconsin with their parents, David and Marian, in the early 1840s, when the family sought opportunity and land in the new state (vgl. Herdegen/Beaudot: Bloody Railroad Cut, a.a.O., S. 45).
Walmsley, Townsend:
US-Fifth Corporal; Co. K, 2nd New Jersey Cavalry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M550 Roll 25).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Walmsley, George P. (Author): Experiences of a Civil War Horse Soldier (University Press of America, 1993)
Walrath, Ezra L.:
US-Col; im Juli 1861 während der Manassas Campaign war Walrath Regimentskommandeur der 12th New York Infantry (vgl. Davis: Battle of Bull Run, a.a.O., S. 119).
Das Regiment gehörte im Juli 1861 während der Manassas Campaign zur Fourth Brigade BrigGen Israel B. *Richardson in First Division BrigGen. Daniel Tyler. Es erlitt starke Verluste im Battle of Blackberry Ford am 18.7.1861 (vgl. Davis Battle of Bull Run, a.a.O., S. 118 ff).
Walter, Charles:
US-LtCol, Co F&S, 17th Regiment Connecticut Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M535 Roll 16); „the brave Swede“ (vgl. Hamlin: Chancellorsville, a.a.O., S. 38). Lt. Colonel Walter, born in Denmark, had been captured at 1st Bull Run. He was released in summer of 1862, and immediately joined the 17th as Lt. Colonel. He was known for his soft spoken mannerisms while drilling the regiment. Walter was killed at Chancellorsville at the Talley house in his first battle with the Seventeenth; the 1st of three Lt. Colonel's to die in action with the regiment (vgl. http://www.seventeenthcvi.org/images_fs.html)
Photo:
LtCol Charles Walter (vgl. http://www.seventeenthcvi.org/images_fs.html)
Walton, James B.:
CS-Pvt; Co. F, 30th Regiment Mississippi Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M232 Roll 42)
Walton, James Birge:
CS-Col; Co. F&S, Washington Battalion, Louisiana Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M378 Roll 30).
Walton kommandierte seit 1857 eine Miliz-Artillerie, die sog. "Washington Artillery", die älteste Milizeinheit im Staat Louisiana (vgl. Boatner, a.a.O., S. 893: Stichpunkt Washington Artillery). Alexander (Fighting for the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 168) gibt irrtümlich deren Stärke nach Ausbruch des Bürgerkrieges mit 3 Kompanien an. Tatsächlich umfaßte die Einheit während nahezu des gesamten Krieges 4 Kompanien in der Army of Northern Virginia und eine weitere im Westen (vgl. Alexander, a.a.O., S. 578, Anm. 6), die 5th Co. Washington Artillery (s. Datei Louisiana Militia). Im Battle of Fredericksburg Senior Officer der Artillery in Longstreet's Corps und Kommandeur der Washington Artillery (vgl. Alexander, a.a.O., S. 168, 177); Chief of Artillery of Longstreet's Corps; Offensichtlich war Walton als Chief of Artillery of Longstreet's Corps von Longstreet nicht geschätzt, weshalb er in der Schlacht von Gettysburg durch E. P. Alexander ersetzt wurde, der auf Befehl Longstreet's an Stelle Walton's die Artillerie während Pickett's Charge befehligte (vgl. Stewart: Pickett's Charge, a.a.O., S. 2; Alexander: Fighting for the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 235).
Nach Ansicht Gallagher's (vgl. Gallagher, Gary W.: Introduction zu: Alexander: Military Memoirs, a.a.O., S. xxi) übte E.P. Alexander lediglich faktisch die Position von Longstreet's taktischem Artilleriekommandeur aus, obwohl nominell die Artillerie von Longstreet's Corps Col. John B. *Walton unterstand; in dieser Funktion war er für die Ausschaltung der US-Artillerie während Pickett's Charge am 3.7.1863 verantwortlich (vgl. Longacre: Pickett, a.a.O., S. 119-121; Longstreet: Lee's Right Wing at Gettysburg; in Battles and Leaders Vol III S. 343). Diese für alle Beteiligten unbefriedigenden Kommandoverhältnisse endeten erst am 18.4.1864 mit der Beförderung Alexander's zum BrigGen und der Ablösung von Walton (Gallagher, Gary W.: Introduction zu: Alexander: Military Memoirs, a.a.O., S. xxi; die diesbezügliche Nachkriegskorrespondenz zwischen Longstreet und seinem Freund Walton ist veröffentlicht bei Southern Historical Society Papers, vol 5:47-53).
Walton war vor dem Krieg Auktionator in New Orleans (vgl. Fremantle, Three Month in the Southern States, a.a.O., S. 251).
Photo:
- Davis / Wiley: Photographic History, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 302
Walton, Simeon T.:
CS-Lt-Col; Co. F&S, 23rd Regiment Virginia Infantry; zunächst Captain Co. K, 23rd Regiment Virginia Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M
Im Rahmen von William B. *Taliaferro's Brigade; Teilnahme an Jackson's Vorstoß gegen Pope's Army of Virginia Anfang August 1862 und dem Battle of Cedar Mountain am 9.8.1862 (vgl. Krick: Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 41; OR 12.2 S. 211). Beim Angriff des Regiments am 9.8.1862 über das Wheatfield auf der linken Seite der CS-Front (vgl. Karte bei Krick, a.a.O., S. 83) erlitt der Regimentskommandeur George Washington *Curtis eine tödliche Verwundung, das Regiment wurde daraufhin von LtCol Simon T. *Walton übernommen (vgl. OR 12.2. S. 211). Im Sommer 1863 war Walton Regimentskommandeur 10th Virginia Infantry / Brigade George H. Steuart / Division MajGen Edward Johnson / II. Army Corps Ewell / Lee's Army of Northern Virginia (vgl. Pfanz: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 460)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Krick: Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 41
- OR 12 (3), p. 211 Walton's Report
Walton, Thomas Beck:
US-+++; aus Pennsylvania
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Walton, Thomas Beck: A Pennsylvanian in Blue: The Civil War Diary of Thomas Beck Walton (White Mane)
Waltrop, Richard W.:
CS-Private, 21st Virginia Infantry (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 103, 504 Anm. 9)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Waldrop, Richard W.: Wartime letters of Richard W. Waltrop, a member of the 21st Virginia Infantry, written throughout the war. Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Wambsganss, Martin:
US-Pvt; August 1839 Nußdorf/Pfalz - 1911 Syracuse/New York; verh. mit Mary Watkins; Pvt 90th New York Infantry; Wambsganns/Wambsgan wurde mit der Medal of Honor für Tapferkeit am 19.10.1864 in Cedar Creek geehrt (vgl. Kukatzki; in Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde 2008, S. S. 448).
Wangelin, Hugo:
US-Major, Regimentskommandeur 12th Missouri Infantry. Im Frühjahr 1862 gehörte das Regiment zur 2nd Brigade Col Nicholas H. Greusel in 1st Division Peter J. Osterhaus in Samuel Ryan Curtis' Army of the South West. Besetzung von Springfield Missouri am 13.1.1862, Battle of Pea Ridge (vgl. Shea / Hess, Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 331).
Ward, A. M.:
CS-Captain und Quartermaster; 16th Arkansas Infantry
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Ward, A. M.: Papers, 1862-1864; 80 items. Affidavits, invoices, orders, reports, receipts, and requisitions from Captain Augustus M. Ward, quartermaster, Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry. Most of the reports, affidavits, and invoices concern supplies for Confederate troops stationed at Lewisville (Miller County) in the summer of 1864, but forty-five of the receipts and requisitions are dated October 1862 and were issued from Yellville (Marion County) and Hamilton Mills. Troops mentioned in the 1862 receipts are Colonel James Fleming Fagan's Regiment of Arkansas Cavalry (First Arkansas Cavalry) and General Mosby Monroe Parsons's Brigade (Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Manuscript Resources for the Civil War, Compiled by Kim Allen Scott, 1990)
Ward, Ferdinand:
Geschäftspartner von Grant's Sohn Ulysses Grant in der Wallstreet Broker Firma Grant & Ward; der "junge Napoleon der Finanzen"; U.S. Grant investierte sein Vermögen in die Firma und wurde Teilhaber des Brokerhauses; ein Teil der finanziellen Transaktionen Ward's war hoch spekulativ und ein anderer Teil betrügerisch, was U.S. Grant unbekannt war; 1884 brach Ward's Kartenhaus zusammen; durch die Schurkerei Ward's verlor Grant nahezu sein ganzes Vermögen (vgl. Grant Memoirs, S. 3; vgl. Grant, Julia Dent: Memoirs, a.a.O., S. 78, 144n, 167n, 323, 327-8). Ward wurde inhaftiert und U.S. Grant als Teilhaber des Brokerhauses hatte 180000$ an Schulden zurückzuzahlen.
Ward, George W.:
US-+++; 112th Pennsylvania Infantry / 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Ward, George W.: History of the Second Pennsylvania Veteran Heavy Artillery (112th Pennsylvania Volunteers) from 1861 to 1866, including the Provisional Second Penn'a Heavy Artillery (Philadelphia 1904; 1st Edition); Issued as Revised edition, but no previous edition is listed in Dornbusch
Ward, John Henry Hobard:
US-BrigGen; zunächst Col 38th New York Infantry; 2nd Brigade (Sedgwick's Brigade), 3rd Division (Heintzelman's Division), Army of the Potomac (vgl. Gottfried: Brigades of Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 194; vgl. Warner: Generals in Blue, a.a.O., S. 537-38; vgl. Frobel, Diary, a.a.O., S. 68, die einen Col Ward als Col des 28th Regiment benennt); das Camp der 38th New York Infantry befand sich seit Oktober 1861 bis Frühling 1862 auf dem Gelände der Farm von Anna S. Frobel (vgl. Frobel, Diary, a.a.O., S. 69).
BrigGen J. Hobart Ward had joined the regular army at the age of eighteen (as Pvt), fought in the Mexican War, was wounded at Monterrey, and won promotion up to the rank of sergeant major (vgl. Gottfried: Brigades of Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 194; vgl. Tagg Generals of Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 69). Ward lef5t the army in 1851, but not the military. He returned to New York, where he became assistant commissary general and then commissary general. Forging political connections, he became the colonel of the 38th New York when the war broke out. He saw action at First Bull run, and he assumed command of Willcox's Brigade when its commander was wounded. Ward also performed solidly at Williamsburg and Seven Pines. With the elevation of David Birney to divisional command, Ward was given his brigade and fought at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville (vgl. Gottfried: Brigades of Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 194; vgl. Tagg: Generals of Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 69).
At Gettysburg Ward and his brigade (which included the 1st and 2nd US Sharpshooters, which operated as a demi-brigade under the command of Col Hiram Berdan) were deployed on 2.7.1863 north of Little Round Top and in the Peach Orchard. MajGen Birney ordered Ward to dispatch the 3rd Maine to the Peach Orchard, and Berdan's 2 regiments of Sharpshooters were sent forward on a scouting mission. In mid-afternoon, MajGen Birney obeyed Third Corps commander MajGen Sickles' orders to move the line forward, and Ward's soldiers soon comprised the extreme left of the Army of the Potomac. His brigade was formed in a shallow crescent facing generally west from the Wheatfield on his right flank to Devil's Den on his left. Ward's five remaining regiments were aligned from left to right, as follows: 99th Pennsylvania, 3rd Maine, 4th Maine, 124th New York, 86th New York, and 20th Indiana with a strength of 2188 men (vgl. Tagg: Generals of Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 69 iVm Gottfried: Brigades of Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 194).
When MajGen John Hood's Division attacked from the west and south about 4:30 p.m., three of his four brigades pounded against Ward's line. The New Yorker expertly jugged his regiments and held back the furious Confederate assault for 1 ½ hour in fighting that frequently became hand-to-hand. As Ward's men were being pushed back and outflanked, reinforcements from the II. and V. Corps arrived to assist in stemming the onslaught. Ward's Brigade was withdrawn beyond the Wheatfield with 50% casualties (vgl. Tagg: Generals of Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 69).
Ward retained his brigadier's post in the army's consolidation in March 1864, an indication his reputation was in a good standing among the Army of the Potomac's high command. At the Wilderness in May 1864 however his career collapsed in shame when he inexplicably got drunk and fled the fight. He was relieved of command, placed under arrest, and mustered out of service in July 1864 (vgl. Tagg: Generals of Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 69-70).
After the war Ward served as a clerk of the superior and supreme courts of New York. He was run over by a train and killed in 1903 (vgl. Tagg Generals of Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 70).
17.6.1823 - † 24.7.1903, beerd. Community Cemetery, Monroe, Orange County / NY (vgl. www.findagrave.com, Abruf vom 18.10. 2016).
Photo:
- Tagg: Generals of Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 69
- Warner, a.a.O., S. 537
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Gottfried: Brigades at Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 194-201
Ward, G. T.:
CS-Col, Regimentskommandeur 2nd Florida Infantry; während der Peninsular Campaign gehörte das Regiment zur Division Early (vgl. Early, War Memoirs, a.a.O., S. 60). Gefallen im Battle of Williamsburg, Va. am 5.5.1862 (vgl. Johnston, Military Operations, a.a.O., S. 123).
Ward, James Harmon:
1806-1861; US-Commander; Berufsoffizier der Marine; Welles bezeichnet Ward als tapferen Offizier (vgl. Welles, Diary I S. 4); 1861 Commander der Potomac Flotilla; Beschießung der Konföderierten Batterien von *Aquia Creek am 1.6.1861; am 27.6.1861 griffen unter dem Befehl von Ward die USS Freeborn, Reliance und Resolute die konföderierten Stellungen bei Mathias Point / VA an; während des Landungsunternehmens erfolgte ein CS-Gegenangriff mit überlegenen Kräften, welche die Unionstruppen zum Rückzug zwangen. Commander Ward deckte mit den Kanonen der USS Freeborn den Rückzug, wobei er als erster Offizier der US-Marine gefallen ist (vgl. Internet Datei Personenglossar Ward).
Ward, Matthias:
CS-Politiker, geboren in Georgia, verzogen nach Texas 1836; zweimal Delegierter der National Democratic Convention; 1858 in den US-Senat als Senator für Texas nachgerückt bis 1860; zur Personenbeschreibung vgl. Chestnut, Diary, S. 51).
Ward, William C.:
CS-Sgt; Co. G. 4th Alabama Infantry (vgl. Penny / Laine: Struggle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 13). Die 4th Alabama Infantry gehörte 1863 während der Gettysburg Campaign zum I. Army Corps Longstreet, 3rd Division (Hood's Division) MajGen John B. Hood, 1st Brigade BrigGen Evander McIver Law. Am 2.7.1863 nahm Ward teil am Angriff am Plum Run Valley und Devil's Den (vgl. Penny / Laine, a.a.O., S. 39).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Ward, William C.: "Incidents and Personal Experiences on The Battlefield at Gettysburg." in: Confederate Veteran, vol. 8, no. 8 (August 1900)
Ward, William Thomas:
US-+++Gen; 1808-78, aus Greensburg, Ky; Teilnahme am Mexikokrieg; Rechtsanwalt; Mitglied der Kentucky-Legislative; Ward stellte 1861 eine Brigade in Kentucky auf; BrigGen USV 18.9.1861. Als Hardee am 15.10.1861 von Bowling Green mit dem Regiment Hindman gegen Ward bei Greensburg vorging, zog sich dieser nach Nordosten auf Campbellsville zurück (vgl. Kelly: Holding Kentucky for the Union; in: B&L vol 1, S. 375; Karte bei Davis Nr. 150). In der Army of the Ohio kommandierte er die 16. Brigade von Nov 1861 bis März 1862; Kommandeur Ward's Brigade, 12th Division von Sept. - Nov. 1862. In der Army of the Cumberland führte er Ward's Brigade; ab 8.6.1863 Brigadekommandeur 2nd Brigade Doolittle / 3rd Division Robert S. Granger / Reserve Corps BrigGen Gordon *Granger / Army of the Cumberland (Welcher / Ligget: Coburn's Brigade, a.a.O., S. 107).
Ward, William Walker:
CS-Col; Ward enlisted as a Private in the 7th Tennessee Infantry under Stonewall Jackson and later joined Morgan's Cavalry, rising to Sergeant, Captain and then Colonel of one of Morgan's finest regiments. Ward's diary was written while he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware and aboard a union hospital ship in Charleston Harbor. Col 9th Tennessee Cavalry; gehörte 1863 zu John Hunt Morgan's Cavalry Division, Bragg's Army of Tennessee; während Morgan's Raid nach Kentucky, Indiana und Ohio im Juni 1863 nach *McMinnville detachiert (vgl. Horwitz: The Longest Raid, a.a.O., S. 4, 8)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Rosenburg, R. B. (ed.): For the Sake of my Country. The Diary of Col W. W. Ward, 9th Tennessee Cavalry, Morgan's Brigade (Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Southern Heritage Print, 1992)
- Ward, W. W. Diary (s. Rosenburg)
Wardwell, David K.:
US-LtCol; Co. F&S, 36th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M544 Roll 12); zuvor war Wardwell als Captain, Co. F, 5th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry (3 months, 1861, Militia) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M544 Roll 42), dann Captain, Co. Co. B, 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M544 Roll 42); im Battle of Gaines Mill/Va am 27.6.1862 war Captain Wardwell Regimentsführer des 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Infantry (vgl. Bennett: Muskets and Sword, a.a.O., S. 61).
Wardwell served as Captain in the Mexican War (vgl. Bennett: Muskets and Sword, a.a.O., S. 61).
David Kilburn Wardwell enlisted as a sergeant for service during the War with Mexico on October 14, 1846. He was mustered into Company E, 1st Massachusetts Infantry. He was promoted to 1st Sergeant and mustered out July 25, 1848. David Wardwell was a 36-year-old artist living at Boston, Massachusetts when he enlisted for 90 days as a captain April 18, 1861. He was commissioned into Company F, 5th Massachusetts Infantry, May 1. Captain Wardwell was mustered out at Boston July 31, 1861. He re-enlisted September 2, 1861, and was commissioned into Company B, 22nd Massachusetts Infantry. Captain Wardwell was discharged August 23, 1862, to accept a commission as a lieutenant colonel and was mustered into Field & Staff, 38th Massachusetts Infantry. Lieutenant Colonel Wardwell was discharged for disability January 24, 1863. After the war he was married four times. His fourth wife, the widow Isabela Victoria (Cole) Escobide, was born in 1873 at Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. He was a member of Tombstone's Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic. At the time of his death he was living with his wife in a quarantine cabin behind the Tombstone Hospital. When his wife was diagnosed with leprosy in Los Angeles, Wardwell brought her to Tombstone to avoid her relocation to a leper colony in Hawaii. Just a few days after he died Arizona authorities returned his wife to a Los Angeles hospital (aus: Tombstone Epitaph (Tombstone, Ariz.), June 04, 1893, Sunday Edition; veröffentlicht www. findagrave.com Abruf vom 25.7. 2016).
18.11.1823 Oxford/Maine - † 15.8.1908 Tombstone/Arizona (vgl. www. findagrave.com Abruf vom 25.7.2016); er wurde als 'BrigGen' bezeichnet (vgl. Salem Times-Register vom 6.8.1908).
Ware, Eugene Fitch:
US-Captain; zunächst Pvt, Co. E, 1st Regiment Iowa Infantry (3 months, 1861) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M541 Roll 28), dann Pvt, Co. F&S, 4th Regiment Iowa Cavalry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M541 Roll 28), anschließend zunächst Pvt, Co. A, 7th Regiment Iowa Cavalry, dann Captain Co. F, 7th Regiment Iowa Cavalry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M541 Roll 28).
Eugene Fitch Ware war 1861 Private im 1st Iowa Infantry, one of the 3 month regiments, fought in Missouri, distinguishing itself at Wilson's Creek. They were nicknamed the "Iowa Greyhounds" for their long marches. Ware went on to become a Sergeant Major and finally Captain in the 7th Iowa Cavalry.
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Brooksher, Bloody Hill, a.a.O., S. 104, 105, 138, 146, 148, 163-164, 173, 175-76, 177-78, 186, 215-16, 220
- Ware, Eugene Fitch: The Lyon Campaign in Missouri, Being a History of the First Iowa Infantry (Topeca, Kansas, 1907; Reprint Iowa City: Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop, 1991); Eugene Fitch Ware war Private im 1st Iowa Infantry); one of the 3 month regiments, the 1st Iowa fought in Missouri, distinguishing itself at Wilson's Creek. They were nicknamed the "Iowa Greyhounds" for their long marches. Ware went on to become a Sergeant Major and finally Captain in the 7th Iowa Cavalry.
Ware, Thomas:
CS-+++; 15th Georgia Infantry
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Nesbitt, Mark: 35 Days to Gettysburg. Campaign Diaries of Two American Enemies (Stackpole, Mechanicsburg); 224 pp, 15 b/w photos, 20 maps. A comparison study of the events leading up to and including the Battle of Gettysburg using diaries of Franklin Horner (12th Pennsylvania) and Thomas Ware (15th Georgia).
Warfield, Edgar:
CS-Pvt; 17th Virginia Infantry
Urkunden/Literatur:
- *Warfield, Edgar (Private, 17th Virginia Infantry): Manassas to Appomattox (Howell Press); 216pp, Photos, Index. Memoirs of Edgar Warfield was a drug store clerk at the start of the war and marched off to fight in almost all the engagements of the 17th Virginia Infantry
Waring, George E., Jr.:
US-Col; Col 4th Missouri Cavalry; während der *Meridian Campaign vom Februar 1864 war Waring Brigadekommandeur einer Cavalry-Brigade in MajGen Sooey *Smith's Cavalry; im Battle of *Okolona am 22.2.1864 kommandierte er einen erfolgreichen Gegenangriff, der die Verfolgung durch die zahlenmäßig stark unterlegenen Cavalry-Kräfte Forrest's stoppte.
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 53 ff
- *Waring, George E., Jr.: "The Sooy Smith Expedition," in: Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, ed. Robert U. Johnson and Clarence C. Buel (New York: Century Co., 1887, vol. IV, S. 416-417
Warner, James Meech:
US-BrigGen, 1862 war Col Warner Regimentskommandeur 11th Vermont Infantry Regiment (= 1st Regiment Vermont Heavy Artillery).
29.1.1836 Middlebury/Vermont - † 16.3.1897 Manhattan/New York. Graduated from the USMA West Point in 1860, placing 40th out of 41 (his classmates included future Confederate Major General Stephen D. Ramseur, and future Union cavalry heroes James H. Wilson and Wesley Merritt). Served on the Colorado frontier from his graduation until June 1862, well after the start of the Civil War. In July 1862 he was sent to the east and was commissioned Colonel and commander of the 11th Vermont Volunteer Infantry. His regiment was assigned to the defenses of Washington, DC, where it was converted into a Heavy Artillery unit. In May 1864, when General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign needed more men, the 11th Vermont was sent to the Army of the Potomac, and was assigned to the battle-decimated Vermont Brigade (the 11th Vermont had over 2,000 men, more that the whole of the rest of its brigade). During the Battle of Spotsylvania, Colonel Warner was shot in the neck while walking along Union earthworks, encouraging his men. Sent to Washington, DC to recover, he participated in the July 1864 repulse of Confederate General Jubal Early's strike against the capital. Brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers in August 1864, he was assigned to command a brigade in General Philip Sheridan's Army in the Shenandoah Valley. He would render distinguished service at the Battles of Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek (where his brigade was one of the few organized Union forces still on the line before Sheridan's famous rallying ride). He would serve up to the April 1865 Appomattox Campaign. He was promoted to full rank Brigadier General, US Volunteers on May 8, 1865 and received a brevet of Brigadier General, US Regular Army. Resigning from the Army in 1866, he would go on to hold administrative positions in New York City until his death in 1897 (vgl. http://www.findagrave.com)
Photo:
Col James Meech Warner (vgl. http://www.findagrave.com)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Ledoux: „Quite ready to be sent somewhere“. The Civil War Letters of Aldace Freeman Walker, a.a.O., S. 19, 21 Am. 17 etc.
Warren, E. T. H.:
CS-Col; 10th Virginia Infantry; Teilnahme an Jackson's Offensive gegen Frémont und Banks im Shenandoah Valley / West Virginia ab 30.4.1862 (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 180). 1863 Col und Regimentskommandeur 10th Virginia Infantry / Brigade George H. Steuart / Division MajGen Edward Johnson / II. Army Corps Ewell / Lee's Army of Northern Virginia (vgl. Pfanz: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 460).
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble:
US-MajGen; 8.1.1830 Cold Spring, Putnam County/NY- † 18.8.1882 Newport/R.I.; Sohn von Sylvanus Warren (1799-1859) und Phebe Lickley Warren (1804-1870) und Bruder von Emily Warren Roebling [mit Washington Roebling] (vgl. www.findagrave.com); West Point 1850 (2/44). US Berufsoffizier, Topographical Engineer; Instructor für Mathematik in West Point. In der Vorkriegszeit Teilnahme in a survey at the Mississippi Delta, supervised raids and canal improvements; went with A. A. Humphreys on the Pacific R.R. Expedition; fought Indians (vgl. Boatner: Civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 891).
14.5.1861 LtCol 5th New York Infantry, 11.9.1861Col 5th New York Infantry, having been promoted Capt. in the Regular Army two days previous; er führte das Regiment at the Yorktown siege; and then commanded 3rd Brigade 2nd Division (Meade), V Army Corps (18.5.1862-Dec. 1862) at Gaines Mill (27.6.1862), wo er verwundet wurde, bei Malvern Hill (1.7.1862), Harrison's Landing (3.7.1862-16.8.1862), 2nd Bull Run (29.8./30.8.1862), Antietam (17.8.1862), Centreville und Fredericksburg (13.12.1862) (vgl. Boatner: Civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 891).
BrigGen 26.9.1862. Er blieb weiterhin Brigadekommandeur bis 5.2.1863, dann wurde er Chief Topographical Engineer der Army of the Potomac, anschließend Chief Engineer der Army of the Potomac (8.6.-12.8.1863); erneut verwundet bei Gettysburg (1.7.-3.7.1863). There is a monument to him on Little Round Top, where he distinguished himself on the second day of the battle (vgl. Boatner: Civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 891).
Warren war 1863 in Gettysburg Chefingenieur der Potomac-Armee. In dieser Funktion war Warren wesentlich an der Planung der Schlacht von Gettysburg beteiligt. Nachdem Meade Ende Juni 1863 den Oberbefehl über die Army of the Potomac in Ablösung von Joseph *Hooker übernommen hatte und den Marsch nach Norden, parallel zum Vorstoß Lee's nach Pennsylvania befohlen hatte, oblag Warren die Auswahl der Marschwege. Die Potomac Army verfügte über keine geeigneten Karten von Pennsylvania (!), weshalb Warren deshalb Lt. Washington A. *Roebling (Anm.: sein Schwager) nach Trenton, New Jersey schicken mußte, dessen Vater John Roebling eine topographische Karte von Pennsylvania besaß (vgl. Sauers: Gettysburg. The Meade-Sickles Controversy, a.a.O., S. 12 und S. 28 Anm. 165; Steinman, D. B.: Builders of the Bridge: The Story of John Roebling and his Son [New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1945] S. 258; s. hierzu auch *Paine, William H.).
Warren traf am späten Nachmittag des 1.7.1863 in Gettysburg ein (vgl. Sauers: Gettysburg. The Meade-Sickles Controversy, a.a.O., S. 23). Am 2.7.1863 erkannte Warren frühzeitig den Fehler von MajGen Sickles, der sein III. Corps entgegen dem Befehl Meade's nach vorne gezogen und am Westabhang von Plum Run und an der Emmitsburg Road eingesetzt hatte; hierdurch verursachte Sickles eine Frontlücke, die zu den Problemen bei Devil's Den und Little Round Top führte. Später begründete Sickles seine Entscheidung vor dem Committee of the Conduct of the War, damit, daß ohne das Vorschieben seiner Truppen die linke Front unhaltbar geworden und die Schlacht verloren worden wäre (vgl. Sickles Testimony, CCW, S. 298; Pfanz: Gettysburg. The Second Day, a.a.O., S. 124; Sauers: Gettysburg. The Meade-Sickles Controversy, a.a.O., S. 97).
Am 2.7.1863 wurde Warren durch ein Sprengstück am Hals leicht verwundet. Bei dem Treffen der Corps Kommandeure in Meade's Hauptquartier am Abend des 2.7.1863 war Warren völlig übermüdet und schlief auf dem Fußboden liegend ein (vgl. Gibbon: Recollections, a.a.O., S. 140).
MajGen 3.5.1863, he then commanded the II Corps (2.9.-16.12.1863) at Auburn, Bristoe Station, Kelly's Ford und Mine Run (vgl. Boatner: Civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 891).
Von Wilderness bis Petersburg Befehlshaber des V. Corps (23.3.1864-2.1.1865 [vgl. Boatner: Civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 891]), Army of the Potomac (vgl. Porter: Campaining with Grant, a.a.O., S. 39), verliert während Five Forks sein Kommando auf Betreiben Sheridan's with prior authority from Grant. Put in command of the defenses of Petersburg and the Southside Railroad. He commanded the Dept. of the Miss. (14.5.-30.5.1864) and resigned his volunteer commission on 27.5.1864 (vgl. Boatner: Civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 891).
Brevetted for Gaine's Mill, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station (BrigGen USA), and for war service (MajGen USA), he remained in the service and was a LtCol of Engineers bis zu seinem Tod 8.8.1882) (vgl. Boatner: Civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 891).
In der Nachkriegszeit war Warren MajGen (USA).
Warren, der seine Kaltstellung durch Sheridan nie verwunden hatte, strengte gegen sich selbst ein Kriegsgerichtsverfahren (Court Martial) wegen seines Verhalten bei Five Forks an. Der "Warren Court of Inquiry" rehabilitierte Warren 1879. Meanwhile, however, he had been professionally ruined, and he „died of a broken heart“ (vgl. Cullum: Biographical Register of the US Military Academy, a.a.O.; vgl. Boatner: Civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 891).
Photo:
- Längin, a.a.O., S. 207
- Sauers: Gettysburg. The Meade-Sickles Controversy, a.a.O., S. 97
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Taylor, Emerson G.: Gouverneur Kemble Warren: The Life and Letters of an American Soldier, 1830-1882 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932)
- **Warren, Gouverneur Kemble: G. K. Warren Papers, New York State Library, Albany / New York
Warren, Henry W.:
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Warren, Henry W.: Reminiscenses of a Mississippi Carpetbagger (Holden, Mass., 1914)
Warren, Leander H.:
ein 13jähriger „local Boy“, der sich am Morgen des 1.7.1863 bei Gamble's Cavalry Brigade aufhielt (vgl. Newton: McPherson's Ridge, a.a.O., S. 22; vgl. http://www.gdg.org/Research/People/Buford/witt4.html). Am frühen Morgen des 1.7.1863 vor Beginn der Kämpfe im Battle of Gettysburg führte Warren Pferde aus der Cavalry Brigade Gamble, Buford's Cavalry Division Meade's Army of the Potomac zur Tränke (vgl. Longacre: The Cavalry at Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 186).
A boy of 13 at the time of the battle of Gettysburg. Mr. Warren had clear recollections of the events of those days and some years ago published a history in which he included his first-hand observations of the battle and the later removal of the dead from shallow battlefield graves to the National cemetery which was dedicated by Abraham Lincoln in November of 1863. Warren half auf dem Schlachtfeld von Gettysburg, die Toten zu sammeln und notdürftig zu beerdigen (vgl. www.findagrave.com).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Warren, Leander H.: "Recollections of the Battle of Gettysburg,"; transcript Adams Historical Society, Gettysburg, Pa.
- Warren, Leander H.: Memoirs (Adams Historical Society, Gettysburg, Pa.)
Warwick, Bradfute:
CS-Col; 4th Texas Infantry Regiment;
1839 - † 6.7.1862 nach tödlicher Verwundung im Battle of Gaines's Mill am 27.6.1862. Bradfute Warwick, Confederate officer, was born in Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia, on November 24, 1839, the son of Corbin Warwick. Warwick was raised in the elite society of Virginia, and in 1856 he attended the University of Virginia. The following year, he attended the Medical College of New York. In 1858 Warwick traveled to Europe and fought with Garibaldi in the effort to unify Italy. When the Civil War began, Warwick volunteered for service with the Confederacy. He initially served as a captain on the staff of General Henry Wise in western Virginia. On September 30, 1861, Warwick was assigned to the Fourth Texas Infantry Regiment, which had recently arrived in Virginia, and was promoted to the rank of major on October 2, 1861. He earned another promotion to lieutenant colonel on March 3, 1862, Warwick was mortally wounded at the battle of Gaines' Mill on June 27, 1862. Two days later, on June 29, 1862, Warwick was promoted to colonel. However, he died on July 6, 1862, and was buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia (vgl. Handbook of Texas; https://https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwaai).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, National Archives and Records Service.
- Mrs. Burton Harrison, Recollections Grave and Gay (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911). An Illustrated History of the Fourth Texas Infantry (http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~dag/4thtex/history/history.html), accessed June 12, 2006.
- James A. Mundie, Jr., with Bruce S. Allardice, Dean E. Letzring, and John H. Luckey, Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide. (Hillsboro, Texas: Hill College Press, 2002).
Warwick, William:
US-Captain; Co. K, 109th Regiment New York Infantry; † gef. 1864 Petersburg/VA
Washburn, Cadwallader Colder:
US-Kavallerie MajGen; Schreibweise des Namens weicht von dem seiner Brüder ab; Bruder von Elihu *Washburne und Israel Washburne; Col 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry ab 6.2.1862 (vgl. Boatner, a.a.O., S. 892); Washburn kommandierte die Cavalry während Alvin P. Hovey's Flankenstoß von *Helena / Arkansas über den Mississippi Richtung *Grenada im November 1862, der zur Unterstützung von Grant's Angriff nach Süden entlang der Mississippi Central Railroad während Grant's First Vicksburg Campaign, erfolgte (vgl. Bearss, Vicksburg Campaign, a.a.O., I 79 ff). Washburn's Cavalry bestand aus Col Hall *Wilson's 1st Brigade mit Teilen der 1st Indiana Cavalry, Teilen der 3rd und 4th Iowa Cavalry, sowie 5th Illinois Cavalry und 9th Illinois Cavalry. Die 2nd Brigade unter Col Thomas Stephens' umfaßte Detachments der 5th Kansas Cavalry, Teilen der 6th Missouri Cavalry, Teilen der 3rd und 10th Illinois Cavalry und der 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry (vgl. Bearss, a.a.O., I 80 Anm. 9).
Ende November 1862 während Grant's Vicksburg Campaign (Overland Campaign) wurden von Helena / Arkansas aus wurden US-Truppen unter Gen Hovey über den Mississippi nach Delta / Mississippi verlegt, die auf Grenada / Mississippi in den Rücken der CS-Verteidigungslinie an Tallahatchie vorstoßen sollten (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg Campaign, a.a.O., vol I Karte S. 58), und mit einem gleichzeitigen frontal Vorstoß von Grant's Army of the Tennessee entlang der Central Mississippi Railroad nach Süden, die CS-Kräfte zerschlagen sollte (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg Campaign, a.a.O., vol I S. 77 ff). Hovey’s Vorstoß von Delta nach Polkville / Mississippi dauerte vom 28.11.1862 - 7.12.1862 (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg Campaign, a.a.O., vol I Karte S. 58). Die Raiders, die hierbei auf Grenada / Mississippi angesetzt waren, bestanden u.a. aus Washburn's Cavalry Brigade mit 1900 Mann. Washburn unternahm hierbei einen Raid Richtung Grenada, der im Ergebnis dazu führte, daß die CS-Kräfte in Mississippi die Tullahatchie-Linie vor Grant's Truppen räumten und sich Richtung Grenada zurückzogen (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg Campaign, a.a.O., vol. I S. 79 mit Karte S. 56).
In der Nacht des 28.11.1862 griff Washburn hierbei die CS-Stellungen an der Mündung des Coldwater River (Karte Davis, a.a.O., Nr. 154) an, die von CS-Maj Green L. *Blythe's 1st Battalion Mississippi State Troops verteidigt wurden (vgl. Bearss, a.a.O., I 80). Washburn wurde von CS-LtCol John S. *Griffith's 1st Texas Cavalry Brigade (später als *Ross’ Brigade bezeichnet) angegriffen, der jedoch den Erfolg des Raids nicht mehr verhindern konnte.
Am 16.4.1864 setzte Sherman MajGen Washburn in Ablösung von MajGen Stephen A. Hurlbutt, zu dessen Fähigkeiten Sherman das Vertrauen verloren hatte, als Kommandeur des US-Militärbezirks West Tennessee ein (vgl. Bearss: Forrest at Brice's Crossroads, a.a.O., S. 5)
Washburn setzte unmittelbar nach dem Untergang der USS-Sultana noch am 27.4.1865 eine Untersuchungskommission ein (vgl. Potter, Sultana, a.a.O., S. 133 ff).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Internet Datei *Holly Springs Nr. 2, S. 5, 6 ff.
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Selected Arkansas manuscripts, 1838-1869; letters and military orders pertaining to Colonel C. C. Washburn, Second Wisconsin Cavalry. Microfilm copy of documents from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Manuscript Resources for the Civil War, Compiled by Kim Allen Scott, 1990).
Photos:
- Potter, Sultana, a.a.O., S. 132
Washburn, George:
US-Pvt; Co. H, 21st Regiment Missouri Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M390 Roll 51; vgl. auch Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 147).
Im März 1862 und beim Battle of Shiloh gehörte die 21st Missouri Infantry zur 1st Brigade Col Everett *Peabody 6th Division BrigGen Benjamin M. *Prentiss in Grant’s Army of the Tennessee (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 141, 320; Grant: The Opposing Forces at Shiloh, B & L, a.a.O., I, S. 538).
Washburn, Henry D.:
US-LtCol, Regimentskommandeur 18th Indiana Infantry. In der Pea Ridge Campaign vom Frühjahr 1862 gehörte das Regiment zur 1st Brigade Col Thomas *Pattison 3rd Division Jefferson C. *Davis in Samuel R. *Curtis Army of the Southwest (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 333); das Regiment wurde bei der Verstärkung von Osterhaus 1st Division bei Oberson‘s Field eingesetzt (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 120 mit Karte S. 108).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Washburn, Henry D.: Report an Brigadekommandeur Col Thomas *Pattison vom 8.3.1862; in Moore, Frank (comp.): The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, With Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc. 10 Vols, New York 1861-67, Vol IV, S. 248 (Anm. She / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 361 Anm. 36: Washburn's Report ist nicht in OR oder im National Archives and Records Administration / Washington, DC erhalten, sondern nur in Moore's Record)
Washburn, Peter T.:
US-MajGen und Governor of Vermont. 7.9.1814 Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts - † 7.2.1870 Woodstock / Vermont. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1835, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1838. He was Reporter of Decisions for the Vermont Supreme Court from 1844 to 1852 and a member of the Vermont House from 1853 to 1854. He was a militia member and commanded the Woodstock Light Infantry. This unit was incorporated into the First Vermont Regiment at the start of the Civil War. Washburn was appointed Regimental Lieutenant Colonel (second in command), but was de facto Commander during the organization's entire service. In 1861 he was elected Vermont's Adjutant General and he served until 1866. As Adjutant General he earned accolades for bringing order to the process of recruiting, equipping, training and transporting recruits for the Union Army. After the war he was President of the Woodstock Railroad and a Director of the Rutland and Woodstock Railroad. Washburn was also a Trustee of the University of Vermont and the State Agricultural College. He was elected Governor in 1869 and became Vermont's first Governor to die in office. His Civil War era office in Woodstock is part of the National Park Soldiers's Marsh Billings Rockefeller Park walking tour vgl. http://www.findagrave.com)
Photo:
Governor Washburn in uniform of Major General while serving as Vermont's Adjutant General during 1860s (vgl. http://www.findagrave.com)
Washburne, Elihu B.:
US-Politiker aus Galena, Illinois; Harvard Law School graduated; Rechtsanwalt; Mitglied des US-Congresses seit 1852, zunächst Whig Party +++?+++, dann republikanische Partei; Bruder von Cadwallader Washburn und Israel Washburne; er schlug Col. U.S. Grant als BrigGen vor (vgl. Hattaway/Jones, a.a.O., S. 52); Washburne, aus der Heimat Grant's, unterstützte diesen während des ganzen Krieges; Grant und Washburn kannten sich erst seit April 1861 (vgl. Catton: Grant Moves South, a.a.O., S. 16); Teilnahme an Grant's Angriff auf Wilderness als Besucher in Grant's Stab (vgl. Porter: Campaining with Grant, a.a.O., S. 43, 53)
Photo:
- Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., nach S. 160
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Bauer, Dan: "The Big Bender." Civil War Times Illustrated, vol. 27 (Dez. 1988), S. 34-43
- Grant/Washburne. Papers. Illinois State Library, Springfield (ILSL)
- **Hunt, Gaillard: Israel, Elihu and Cadwallader Washburn: A Chapter in American Biography (New York, 1971)
- **Washburne, Elihu B.: Papers, Library of Congress, Washington
Washington, John A.:
CS-Col; Aide de Camp im Stab von Gen. Robert E. Lee und acting as Assistant Adjutant General; gefallen während des Gefechts von Cheat Mountain während einer mit Rooney *Lee unternommenen Aufklärung in Tygart's Valley am 13.9.1861 (vgl. Freeman: Robert E. Lee, a.a.O., vol. 1, S. 569, 639)
Washington, Lewis:
Col; er wurde bei John Brown's Raid auf Harper's Ferry 1959 als Geisel genommen (vgl. Douglas: I rode with Stonewall, a.a.O., S. 4).
Washington, Lucius Quintius:
CS-++++; rechte Hand des Secretary of State Judah Philip *Benjamin (vgl. Tidwell, April 65 - Confederate Covert Action, a.a.O., S. 33)
Waterhouse, Allen Cobb:
US-Captain; Batteriechef Battery E 1st Illinois Light Artillery; die Battery stammte aus Chicago / Illinois; ihre Ausrüstung und die Pferde hatte die Battery erst Ende März 1862 erhalten und konnte mit den Pferden vor dem Einsatz bei Shiloh am 6.4.1862 nur dreimal exerzieren (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 157).
Im April 1862 und im Battle of Shiloh war die Battery zur Unterstützung der 3rd Brigade Col Jesse Hildebrand 5th Division BrigGen William T. Sherman in Grant’s Army of the Tennessee abgestellt; sie war am Morgen der Schlacht von Shiloh auf einem Hügel nördlich von Rea Springs eingesetzt (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 157, mit Karte S. 165), eingesetzt gegen 9:30 gegen den CS-Durchbruch durch Sherman’s Front (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 160 168).
Gegen 9:30 bei den weiteren massierten CS-Angriffen gegen 9:30 durch die nach vorn geworfene 2nd Division MajGen Benjamin F. Cheatham 1st Brigade BrigGen Bushrod R. Johnson mit Blythe's Mississippi Regiment und der 154th Tennessee Infantry zog Waterhouse seine Battery zurück. Auf Befehl des Artilleriekommandeurs von Sherman’s Division, Major Ezra Taylor, bezog die Battery nur 300 Yards nördlich erneut Stellung, ca 100 Yards südlich der Shiloh Church. Durch eine überraschende Flankierung von Teilen der 13th Tennessee Infantry wurde die Battery überrollt und gefangengenommen (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 170 mit Karte S. 165).
Sechs Co’s der 13th Tennessee Infantry unter Col Vaughn führten sodann eine Flankierung nach rechts durch, gelangten durch eine Schlucht ungesehen seitlich bis auf 150 yards an Waterhouse’s Battery heran, stürmten die Battery und setzten diese außer Gefecht; dann drang die 13th Tennessee bis Shiloh Church vor, die ca 100 yards nördlich der Stellungen von Waterhouse’s Battery lag (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 170).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Hoover, Samuel: "Waterhouse's Battery at Shiloh." National Tribune, September 10, 1925
- Mollus / Illinois Commandery, vol. 13D (1923), S. 46-47: "Allen Cobb Waterhouse"
Waters, James:
CS-Captain; Kompanie-Chef Co. L 5th Virginia Infantry; dann unter Jackson in der Valley Campaign Batteriechef von Waters's West Augusta Battery (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 52).
Watie, Stand:
CS-Col; Regimentskommandeur 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles. Das Regiment gehörte zu BrigGen Albert J. Pike's Brigade, McCulloch‘s Division in Van Dorn‘s Army of the West (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 336); Battle of Pea Ridge am 7.3.1862; Teilnahme am Skirmish bei Forster‘s Farm (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 101)
Watkins, Louis D.:
US-Col; 6th Kentucky Cavalry; im Juni 1863 eingesetzt bei Franklin / Tennessee eingesetzt; er wurde beauftragt, die beiden CS-Spione zu verhaften (vgl. Welcher / Ligget: Coburn’s Brigade, a.a.O., S. 111)
Watkins, A. C.:
CS-Pvt; Co. A, 38th Regiment Tennessee Infantry (Looney's) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45).
Watkins, C. L.:
CS-Pvt; Co. C, 24th Battalion, Tennessee Sharpshooters (Maney's) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45).
Watkins, James H.:
CS-Pvt; Sullivan County Reserves, Tennessee Local Defense Troops (White's Company) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45).
Watkins, J. B.:
CS-Pvt; Sparkman's Company, Tennessee Light Artillery (Maury Artillery) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45).
Watkins, J. M.:
CS-Pvt; Co. 2'F, 23rd Regiment Tennessee Infantry (Martin's) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45).
Watkins, John:
CS-Pvt; Co. C, 37th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry (7th Infantry) (1st East Tennessee Rifles) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45).
Watkins, John W.:
CS-Corporal; McClung's Company, Tennessee Light Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45).
Watkins, K. C.:
CS-Pvt; Co. A, 5th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry (McKenzie's) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45); auch als R. C. Watkins bezeichnet
Watkins, Manuel:
CS-Pvt; Co. A, 22nd Regiment Tennessee Infantry (Freeman's) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45).
Watkins, O. A.:
CS-Pvt; Browne's Company, Tennessee Light Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45); s. also 2nd Battalion Alabama Light Artillery
Watkins, Sam:
CS-Pvt; Co +++klären+++, 1st Regiment Tennessee Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45); er könnte identisch sein mit Samuel R. *Watkins vom Co H, 1st Regiment Tennessee Infantry (Feild's) +++klären+++ bzw. Samuel Watkins vom Co. C 3rd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry (Clack's) +++klären+++
Aus Columbia / Tennessee; das Regiment gehörte im Spätjahr zu Loring's Army of the Northwest, Brigade S. R. Anderson (vgl. Tanner, Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 65); Teilnahme an Jackson's Expedition nach Bath und Romney Ende Dezember 1861 / Januar 1862 (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 65-90).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Sam Watkins (Pvt, 1st Tennessee): Co Aytch Maury Grays. First Tennessee Regiment or a Side Show of the Big Show (Broadfoot Publishing - Reprint of McGowat Mercer printing from the 1882 original - Introduction by Bell Wiley); Teilnahme an den Schlachten von Shiloh, Perryville, Chickamauga, Franklin and Nashville
Watkins, Samuel:
CS-Pvt; Co. C, 3rd Regiment Tennessee Infantry (Clack's) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45)
Watkins, S. K.:
CS-Sergeant Major; Phillip's Company, Tennessee Light Artillery (Johnson Light Artillery); Watkins trat als Quartermaster Sergeant in die Einheit ein (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45)
Watkins, Sam R.:
CS-Pvt; Co H, 1st Regiment Tennessee Infantry (Feild's) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Watkins, Sam R.: Co. Aytch. A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War (New 1962; reprint Taschenbuchausgabe Touchstone: New York, 1997)
Watkins, Thomas C:
US-+++; Orderly Sgt (Co H) 18th Illinois Infantry; Teilnahme am Battle of Shiloh
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Watkins, Thomas C.: Diary. (Civil War Times Collection: United States Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania)
Watkins, Zaral:
CS-Pvt; Co. B, 45th Regiment Tennessee Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 45).
Watrous, Jerome A.:
US-Adjutant; Co. E, 6th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 31); Watrous was a Company E soldier, having enlisted out of Appleton (vgl. Herdegen/Beaudot: Bloody Railroad Cut, a.a.O., S. 47n9).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Watrous, James A.: „An Appleton Contribution,“ unpublished manuscript. Jerome A. Watrous Papers, State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Watrous, James A.: „Bragg's Rifles,“ Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph January 4, 1880
- Watrous, Jerome A.: Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, August 24, 1879. The Article was not by-lined, but was obviously written bei Editor Watrous (Anm. bei Herdegen/Beaudot: Bloody Railroad Cut, a.a.O., S. 36n16).
- Watrous, Jerome A.: "Gettysburg." Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, 26 Nov. 1879
- Watrous, Jerome A.: "Some Premonitions." Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, 27 July 1885
- Watrous, Jerome A.: „The Old Brigade“, Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph v. 27.9.1885
- Watrous, Jerome A.: Papers, State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Watrous, J[erome] A.: "Richard Epps and Other Stories," Milwaukee, 1906
- Watrous, Jerome A.: „Of One Days Work“; Milwaukee Telegraph, 20.10.1893 (im Battle of Gettysburg; vgl. Herdegen: The Men Stood like Iron, a.a.O., S. 4 n. 4)
- Watrous, James A.: Milwauckee Telegraph, October 16, 1895
- Watrous, Jerome A.: „A Real Reunion,“ Milwaukee Telegraph, October 30, 1897 (Anm.:
Watson, George W.:
US-Pvt; Co. H, 12th Regiment New Hampshire Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M549 Roll 13).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Watson, George: Correspondence, 1862-65. Union soldier in the 12th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment. Correspondence to his family from various camps in Virginia, and from Point Lookout, where he was stationed. (Virginia Tech, Univ. Libraries, Special Collections: Civil War guide. Manuscript Sources for Civil War Research in the Special Collections Department of the Virginia Tech Libraries Ms 89-024).
Watson, Joseph:
US-Ensign; USS Springfield. Das US-Gunboat USS Springfield, ein kleiner Dampfer mit umlaufender Brüstung aus dickem Eichenholz als Schutz gegen Infanterie-Beschuß und mit drei 24-Pfünder Howitzers bewaffnet, stand unter dem Kommando von Ensign Joseph Watson. Am 8.7.1863 auf dem Ohio River eingesetzt, sollte das Gunboat das Übersetzen von John Hunt Morgan's Division (Morgan's Raid nach Kentucky und Ohio) von *Brandenburg / Kentucky nach Indiana verhindern. Es kam zu einem einstündigen Artillerie-Duell mit der CS-Artillery unter Captain Edward P. *Byrne (vgl. Horwitz: Longest Raid, a.a.O., S. 48).
Watson, Malbone F.:
US-Lt; Battery I, 5th US Artillery (Regular Army) (vgl. Shultz/Mingus: Gettysburg Second Day, a.a.O., S. 377; Anm.: bei National Park Soldiers nicht genannt).
On 2.7.1863 Watson's Battery was placed near Trostle's lane above Plum Run, potentially sacrifying the artillery in order to buy time during the Confederate attack of Barkdale's Mississippi Brigade. Sheldon's Battery was next in line 400 yards east of Watson and 200 yards south of Weickert's woods west of the farmyard. Father west Captain John Bigelow's 9th Massachusetts Battery was preparing to open fire (vgl. Shultz/Mingus: Gettysburg Second Day, a.a.O., S. 377-378 with Maps S. 367, 416).
Lt Watson's Battery and Captain J John Bigelow's 9th Massachusetts Battery played crucial roles near Abraham Trostle's lower farm and Plum Run, that helped save the Union center. Placed in position by LtCol Freeman McGilvery, both engaged in hand-to-hand combat before being overrun (vgl. Shultz/Mingus: Gettysburg Second Day, a.a.O., S. 381 with Photo). Within a few moments of the demise of Bigelow's battery, Lt Malbone F. Watson's Battery I, 5th US Artillery opened fire atop his knoll east of Plum Run. Posted by McGilvery before he placed Bigelow, Watson's four guns targeted the 21st Mississippi Infantry Regiment while BrigGen Andrew Humphreys (2nd Division, III Corps Sickles) dressed his ranks along the stone wall running north to south . Opening with four small-bore 10-pounder Parrott Rifles, Watson's gunners not only had to contend with Humphrey's renewed advance, but with throngs of retreating Federals and General Wofford's large brigade of Georgians about 200 yards off their left flank in the Trostle Woods (vgl. Shultz/Mingus: Gettysburg Second Day, a.a.O., S. 383; vgl. McLaws, Lafayette: „The Federal Disaster on the Left,“ Philadelphia Weekly Times, August 4, 1886). Lt Watson was ordered to hold at all costs. He and his men did just that, though Watson lost a leg in the fight The Mississippians seized Watson's four 10-pounder Parrots (vgl. Shultz/ Mingus: Gettysburg Second Day, a.a.O., S. 425).
Watson, two years out of West Point, suffered a knee wound early in this action. There were 21 other casualties, and half of the battery's horses were shot. The battery had to be abandoned. The men of the 21st Mississippi Infantry Regiment tried to turn their captured guns on their former owners but could not do so. The gun crews had carried off their tools and friction primers, and the guns could not be loaded, aimed and fired. Watson's leg was later amputated (vgl. Pfanz: Gettysburg Second Day, a.a.O., S. 347; vgl. OR 27[1]: 660).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Woods, James: „Defending Watson's Battery,“ The Gettysburg Magazine, Issue No. 9, July 1993
Watson, Peter H.:
US-Assistant Secretary of War; Stellvertreter von Stanton.
Watson, Pliny E.:
US-First Lieutenant, Co. F&S, 55th Regiment Ohio Infantry; Watson trat als Pvt in das Regiment ein (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 114), bzw. Co. K, 55th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. Osborn: Trials and Triumphs. The Record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a.a.O., S. 68).
Photo:
First Lieutenant Pliny E. Watson (vgl. Osborn: Trials and Triumphs. The Record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a.a.O., S. 68)
Watson, William:
CS-Pvt; Co. K, 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M378 Roll 30; vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 135).
Watson was a British citizen, born in Scotland, who volunteered to fight for the Confederacy as an enlisted man; 3rd Louisiana Infantry; Teilnahme am Battle of Wilson's Creek (vgl. Nosworthy, Bloody Crucible, a.a.O., S. 5-8). Während der Pea Ridge Campaign im Frühjahr 1862 gehörte das Regiment unter Regimentskommandeur Major Will F. *Tunnard zur Brigade Louis Hébert. Am 7.3.1862 eingesetzt bei den Kämpfen in Morgan’s Woods (vgl. Shea / Hess, a.a.O., S. 125 mit Karte S. 123; 131-133 mit Karte S. 132, 134 ff). Watson fought with the 3rd Louisiana Volunteers in Missouri at Wilson's Creek and then at Corinth. After 1863 he went on to serve as a blockade runner (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 135).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Watson, William: Life in the Confederate Army (New York 1888; Reprint Time Life, NY 1983); Nevins says of this "...an excellent commentary on Southern military life."
Watts, James W.:
CS-LtCol; 2nd Virginia Cavalry; 1863 gehörte die Einheit unter Col Thomas T. Munford zu Fitzhugh Lee's Cavalry Brigade; Stuart's Cavalry Division (vgl. Longacre, The Cavalry at Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 17).
Waud, Alfred R.:
US-Journalist / Photograph und Zeichner
Photo:
- Davis / Wiley: Photographic History of the Civil War, vol II, a.a.O., S. 117-119
Waul, Thomas N.:
CS-Col und Politiker; aus Texas; Waul traf am 5.1.1861 zur Vorbereitung des CS-Gründungskongresses vom Februar 1861 und zur Vorbereitung der Entscheidung über die Sezession mit Jefferson *Davis, Albert G. *Brown u.a. anderen zusammen (vgl. Davis: A Government of Our Own, a.a.O., S. 12).
Waul stellte die Waul's Texas Legion auf.
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Hasskarl, Robert A.: Waul’s Texas Legion, 1862-1865 (Ada: The Book Bindery, 1976)
Photo:
Davis/Wiley, Photographic History, a.a.O., S. 44
Way, Virgil G.:
US-Pvt; 33rd Illinois Infantry (vgl. Hicken: Illinois in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 17).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Way, Virgil G.: History of the Thirty-third Regiment Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 22nd August 1861, to 7th December, 1865 (Gibson City / Illinois: Regimental Association, 1902)
Way, William C.:
US-Chaplain; 24th Michigan Infantry (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 90)
Wayne, James M.:
Richter am US-Supreme Court; 1790-+++; Wayne stammte aus Georgia; seine Ansichten waren unionistisch; Wayne blieb auch nach der Sezession der Union treu. Andererseits war seine Sicht der Sklaverei streng an südlich-staatlicher Sicht ausgerichtet; er verteidigte die Rechte auf Sklavenhaltung (vgl. Nevins, The Emergence of Lincoln, vol. I, a.a.O., S. 103). Wayne war beteiligt an der Entscheidung im berühmten Dred *Scott Case von 1857, bei der der US-Supreme Court unter Vorsitz von Richter Roger B. *Taney auch über die Frage der Verfassungsmäßigkeit des *Missouri Compromise befand.
Der Missouri-Compromise betraf auch die Frage, ob die Bundesregierung die Verhältnisse in den Territorien bestimmen dürfe, die mangels Bundesstaaten-Status noch gar kein Staat der USA waren. Dieses Recht der US-Bundesregierung, das Washington im Missouri Compromise nördlich der 36° Linie zugestanden war, wurde vom US-Supreme-Court in der Dred *Scott-Entscheidung 1857 verneint und der Missouri-Compromise für verfassungswidrig und ungültig erklärt (vgl. Nevins, The Emergence of Lincoln, vol. I, a.a.O., S. 91). Der Supreme Court war mehrheitlich mit Richtern besetzt, die südliche Interessen im Auge hatten. Alexander H. *Stephens, der eng befreundet war mit Richter James M. Wayne, versuchte Einfluß auszuüben, um den Supreme Court zu einer Äußerung über den Missouri Compromise im Rahmen der Dred Scott Entscheidung zu veranlassen, obwohl eine solche für das Urteil nicht erforderlich war (vgl. Nevins, a.a.O., S. 107).
Weaver, Augustus C.:
US-+++; 3rd Indiana Cavalry; 1863 gehörte die 3rd Indiana Cavalry zur 1st Cavalry Brigade Col William *Gamble 1st Cavalry Division Buford im Cavalry Corps Pleasonton's der Army of the Potomac. Die Brigade bestand aus 8th Illinois Cavalry, 12th Illinois Cavalry, 3rd Indiana Cavalry und 8th New York Cavalry (Gliederung vgl. B & L, a.a.O., vol III, S. 437). Das Regiment wurde am 1.7.1863 westlich Gettysburg an der Straße von Cashtown im verzögerten Gefecht eingesetzt gegen den Angriff von Archer's Brigade Division Heth (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 69).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Weaver, Augustus C.: Third Indiana Cavalry (Greenwood, 1919)
Weaver H. C.:
+++-Captain
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Weaver H. C. (Captain): Morgan's Raid in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, July, 1863; Ohio MOLLUS Sketches of War History vol IV, S. 278-314
Weaver, John E.:
US-Pvt; Co E, 3rd Regiment Indiana Cavalry (vgl. National Park soldiers M540 Roll 81).
1863 gehörte die 3rd Indiana Cavalry zur 1st Cavalry Brigade Col William *Gamble 1st Cavalry Division Buford im Cavalry Corps Pleasonton's der Army of the Potomac. Die Brigade bestand aus 8th Illinois Cavalry, 12th Illinois Cavalry, 3rd Indiana Cavalry und 8th New York Cavalry (vgl. Gliederung vgl. B & L, a.a.O., vol III, S. 437). Das Regiment wurde am 1.7.1863 westlich Gettysburg an der Straße von Cashtown im verzögerten Gefecht eingesetzt gegen den Angriff von Archer's Brigade Division Heth. Weaver wurde durch einen Schuß ins linke Bein am 1.7.1863 bei Herr Ridge westlich Gettysburg verwundet, wurde amputiert, erholte sich von den Folgen nicht mehr und starb am 3.8.1863 in Camp Letterman (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 69).
Webb, Alexander S.:
US-MajGen; Brigadekommandeur der Philadelphia Brigade; beim Marsch auf Gettysburg stellte sich BrigGen Webb bei der Durchquerung des Monocacy River mitten in den Fluß, um als Beispiel für seine Brigade zu verdeutlichen, daß die Offiziere dieselbe körperliche Belastung zu ertragen hatten, wie die Mannschaften; er ließ einen Captain festnehmen, der den Fluß auf einer Planke überquerte, ließ ihn jedoch später wieder frei, als ihm durch den Truppenarzt erklärt wurde, daß der Offizier an Rheumatismus litt (vgl. Pfanz: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 18). Webb erhielt als Brigadekommandeur am 2.7.1863 in Gettysburg bei der Abwehr des Durchbruchsversuch der CS-Brigade Wright / Div. Anderson / Longstreet's Army Corps (gefährlichster Moment im mittleren Frontabschnitt (Karte bei Symonds: Gettysburg. A Battlefield Atlas, a.a.O., S. 56) die Congressional Medal of Honor (vgl. Beyer / Keydel [eds.]: Deeds of Valor, a.a.O., S. 224/25).
Photo:
Portrait of Brig. Gen. Alexander S. Webb, officer of the Federal Army (Maj. Gen. from Aug. 1, 1864 (Brady National Photographic Art Gallery Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) Photo cropped and cleaned up by Hal Jespersen) (vgl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_S._Webb)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Banes, Charles H.: History of the Pennsylvania Brigade (Philadelphia, 1877)
- +Webb, Alexander S.: Papers, Yale University; Copy in Robert Brake Collection, USHMI, Carlisle, Pa.
Webb, Thomas J.:
CS- +++klären+++
Urkunden/Urkunden/Literatur:
- Webb, Thomas J.: Letter to Brother, 18.7.1863, Brake Collection, USMMI
Webber, Thomas B.:
CS-Major; 1863 Regimentskommandeur 2nd Kentucky Cavalry (vgl. Horwitz: Longest Raid, a.a.O., S. 8).
Weber, Max:
US-BrigGen; *24.8.1824 in Baden - 15.6.1901 in Brooklyn / NY; Weber war Leutnant der Großherzoglichen Badischen Truppen; Weber nahm 1848 an der gescheiterten Revolution teil und kämpfte unter Franz Sigel in der badischen Revolution; in die USA geflüchtet (s. Passagierliste), ausgereist mit der "Hannah Brooker" von Le Havre nach New York, dort angekommen am 6.11.1849; er führte ein Hotel in New York, welches zur Anlaufstelle deutscher Flüchtlinge wurde; 1861 gründete Weber die "Turner's Rifles" (später 20th New York Infantry Regiment) und wurde zum Col. 20th New York Infantry gewählt; aufgrund von Protesten Weber's (+++klären+++), wurde das 20th New York nicht der Brigade Blenker zugeordnet, sondern nahm an Mc. +++++, S. 83); Commander von Fort Monroe; im September 1862 führte Weber die 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, II. Corps in der Schlacht von Antietam, wobei er schwer an der Schulter verwundet wurde. Weber war lange Zeit ins Lazarett, dann Duty in Washington, anschließend Post Commander der Truppen in Harper's Ferry u. zwischen Sleepy Creek und Monocacy River; kämpfte gegen Early's Raid nach Washington und war 1864 unter Sigel im Shenandoah-Tal eingesetzt, hatte aber nur ein kleines Kommando. In der Nachkriegszeit amerikanischer Konsul in Nantes / Frankreich.
Photo:
Gen Max Weber (vgl. http://www.findagrave.com)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Chase, Brief vom 11.5.1862; abgedruckt bei Chase: Diary, a.a.O., S. 83
- **Weber, Max: Letter, 1861. Colonel of the 20th Regiment of New York Volunteers. Letter to Major General Benjamin F. Butler, September 5, 1861, describing the capture of Fort Hatteras, North Carolina, on August 28, by Weber's troops. (Virginia Tech, Univ. Libraries, Special Collections: Civil War guide. Manuscript Sources for Civil War Research in the Special Collections Department of the Virginia Tech Libraries Ms 89-027).
Webster, Daniel:
US-Senator aus New Hampshire später Massachusetts; im *Krieg von 1812 stellte sich der junge, damals der *Federalist Party angehörende Webster gegen die Politik von Präsident Madison (vgl. Heideking, Geschichte der USA, a.a.O., S. 96). Webster war der Sprecher des wirtschaftlichen denkenden abolitionistisch gesinnten New England; Mitglied des bedeutenden Senatstriumvirats, das in den Jahrzehnten vor dem Bürgerkrieg die Geschicke der USA lenkten (vgl. McPherson: Für die Freiheit sterben, a.a.O., S. 63; vgl. Davis, William C.: Brother against Brother. The War Begins, a.a.O., S. 33).
Photos:
- Davis, William C.: Brother against Brother. The War Begins, a.a.O., S. 34
Webster, Joseph Dana:
CS-MajGen; 1811-1876; aus New Hampshire; graduiert in Dartmouth; Civil Engineer, dann US-Offizier im topographischen Dienst; Teilnahme am Mexikokrieg; Webster trat anschließend zurück und wurde Fabrikant in Chicago; Major Add. Paymaster Vols am 1.6.1861; Col 1st Illinois Light Artillery am 1.2.1862; Teilnahme am Battle of Fort Henry und Fort Donelson (vgl. Boatner, a.a.O., S. 899); im Battle of Shiloh Artilleriechef in Grant's Army of the Tennessee (vgl. Boatner, a.a.O., S. 899) oder +++ im Battle of Shiloh war Col Webster Stabschef von Grant's Army of the Tennessee (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 104).
Webster, Timothy:
US-Spion; Webster spielte zusammen mit *George Curtis den biederen US-Kaufmann, der mit den Konföderierten über Contrabande verhandeln wollte; beiden gelang es auf diese Weise, mit CS-Secretary of State, Judah *Benjamin, in Kontakt zu treten. Benjamin, der sich täuschen ließ, versuchte über beide US-Agenten in Kontakt mit eigenen Agenten auf dem Gebiet des Nordens zu treten und gab Webster und Curtis Korrespondenz an die CS-Agenten mit. Auf diese Weise gelang es dem Norden, wichtige CS-Agenten zu enttarnen (vgl. Markle: Spies, a.a.O., S. 21/22).
Weed, Stephen H.:
US-BrigGen; kommandierte in der Gettysburg Campaign die frühere Brigade Warren, V. Corps Sykes (vgl. Sauers: Gettysburg: The Meade-Sickles Controversy, a.a.O., S. 46).
Weed, Thurlow:
US-Politiker; Republikanische Partei; politischer Freund von Stephen A. *Douglas (vgl. Schurz, Reminiscenses, a.a.O., vol. 2, S. 34). Weed war auf dem Parteikongreß der Republikaner in Chicago (Chicago Convention) im Mai 1860 der Chief Manager für Wahl von Seward als Präsidentschaftskandidat (vgl. Schurz, Reminiscenses, a.a.O., vol. 2, S. 176). Weed galt als ein Mann geheimnisvoller Kräfte, als ein politischer Hexenmeister, Großmeister der politischen Intrige und gründlichster Kenner menschlicher Stärken und Schwächen, sicherer Kalkulator politischer Chancen und Möglichkeiten, der schützende Genius, kunstvolle Drahtzieher und Hintergrund-Förderer der politischen Karriere von William H. *Seward (vgl. Schurz, Reminiscenses, a.a.O., vol. 2, S. 176). Gideon *Welles spricht davon, daß das perfide Verhalten von Weed der Grund dafür war, daß Gen. Wadsworth den verdienten Gouverneursposten von New York nicht habe antreten können (vgl. Welles, Diary I, S. 39; Welles II 27; vgl. hierzu auch Nevins: Ordeal of the Union, vol: War Becomes Revolution 1862-1863, a.a.O., S. 319). Während des Krieges leistete Weed den USA mehrfach Dienste von erheblicher Bedeutung (vgl. Schurz, Reminiscenses, a.a.O., vol. 2, S. 179).
Photo:
- Schurz, Reminiscenses, a.a.O., vol. 2, S. 176
Weems, Lo>CS-Captain; Co A 15th Alabama Infantry; gefallen im Battle of Gaines' Mills
Weer, William:
US-Col; 10th Kansas Infantry (US)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Josephy: Civil War in the West, a.a.O., S. 355, 256-357, 361
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Selected Arkansas manuscripts, 1838-1869; among the Civil War documents are papers captured at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, in 1862 by an expedition commanded by Colonel William Weer, Tenth Kansas Infantry. These papers include the following: letters, orders, and requisitions dated from September 1, 1861, to April 1, 1862, bearing the signatures of Albert Pike and Stand Watie (Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Manuscript Resources for the Civil War, Compiled by Kim Allen Scott, 1990).
Weidrich / Wiedrich, Michael:
US-Col; Co. F&S, 15th Regiment New York Heavy Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M551 Roll 149). Anm.: Der Familienname lautet gem. Aufschrift auf dem Grabstein auf dem Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo/New York „Wiedrich“ (vgl. www.findagrave.com).
geb. 23.9.1820 Hohwiller/Elsaß - † 21.3.1899 Buffalo, Erie County / New York, beerd. Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo/New York; °° mit Maria B. Roth Wiedrich ( 1824-1879) (vgl. www.findagrave.com).
Union Army Civil War Officer. Alsatian-born German, he served during the Civil War as Captain of Battery I, 1st New York Light Artillery, "Wiedrich's Battery"; and later as Lieutenant Colonel of the 15th New York Heavy Artillery. He immigrated to the US in 1837, settling in the German community in Buffalo, New York. In 1841 he joined the state militia, serving with an artillery company attached to the 65th New York State Militia. By the late 1850's he held the rank of Major and entered politics. In 1860 he became co-publisher of the "Buffalo Freie Presse", a daily German language newspaper and was elected tax-collector of Buffalo in November. Mustered in as Captain of the First New York Light Artillery, Battery I on August 30, 1861 Michael Wiedrich would lead the battery at the battles of Cross Keys, Second Bull Run, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Transferred west Wiedrich and Battery I participated in the Chattanooga Campaign in October and November, 1863. In early February, 1864 he was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the Fifteenth New York Heavy Artillery. By June Wiedrich was commanding the regiment outside Petersburg; serving as infantry with the Fifth Army Corps. Flesh wound (back) at Globe Tavern on August 18, 1864. At Five Forks on April 1, 1865 he was more seriously wounded, suffering a gun shot wound to his right arm and was discharged for disability in June due to his wound. On March 13, 1865 he was brevetted Colonel, US Volunteers for "gallant and meritorious services in the battles on the Weldon Railroad, Va." Following the war he entered the insurance business and was re-elected Buffalo receiver of taxes for two terms (1866-67). He worked for the Germania Fire Insurance Company of New York's Buffalo firm beginning in 1866 and later co-managed the branch. In 1869 he was elected assessor for the Internal Revenue (1869-73). Wiedrich was an influential member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Stuttgart Encampment No. 70 (German) and a Freemason; as well as a prominent member of the Republican Party in Erie County. A member of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) he was active in veterans affairs; a monument was erected on East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg in 1889, dedicated to Battery I. Wiedrich died in Buffalo a decade later at the age of 78 (vgl. www. findagrave.com).
Im Battle of Chancellorsville war Captain Weidrick's Battery (vgl. B&L, vol. III, S. 236) mit 6 Geschützen eingesetzt im Rahmen des linken Flügels XI Army Corps bei Dowdall Farm zur Unterstützung von Adolphus *Buschbeck's Brigade (vgl. Hamlin: Battle of Chancellorsville, a.a.O., S. 36).
Weidrich, William E.:
US-Pvt, Co. I, 2nd Regiment New York Heavy Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M551 Roll 149); originally filed unter William E. Widrick.
Weidricht, John:
US-Pvt, Co. I, 23rd Regiment Kentucky Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M386 Roll 29).
Weigel, Philipp Franz:
US-Arzt; geboren 1814 in Kandel; General-Arzt in Missouri (vgl. Kukatzki, Bernhard: "Pfälzer im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg", Teil II, in: Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde 2003, Heft 5, S. 298).
Weightman, Richard H.:
CS-Col; Vorkriegszeit: Captain der Missouri Volunteers im Mexiko-Krieg; im Bürgerkrieg: 1861 Col Missouri State Guards; Teilnahme am Rückzug von Clairborne *Jackson nach Südwest-Missouri; Battle of Carthage am 5.7.1861 (vgl. Brooksher: Bloody Hill, a.a.O., S. 123; OR 3, 18, 23; Duke, Basil W.: War Reminiscenses, a.a.O., S. 53). Gefallen 1861 (vgl. Duke, a.a.O., S. 51).
Weir, Gulian Verplanck:
US-Lt; Batteriechef Battery C, 5tr US Artillery (vgl. Shultz/Mingus: Second Day at Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 285).
Weir, Thomas:
West Point Professor, er leitete die Zeichenklasse; Künstler; er malte u.a. nach 1852 das Portrait des damaligen West Point Superintendenten Robert E. Lee (vgl. Abb. bei Time-Life-Book: Lee Takes Command, a.a.O., S. 19); Vater von Lt Gulian Verplack *Weir Vater von Lt Evan *Thomas (vgl. Shultz/Mingus: Second Day at Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 285, hier als 'Professor Robert Weir' bezeichnet).
Weitzel, Gottfried:
US-MajGen; 1835 in Wintzeln / Südpfalz (vgl. Kukatzki, Bernhard: "Pfälzer im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg", Teil II, in: Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde 2003, Heft 5, S. 298) - 1884; aus Ohio; West Point 1855 (2/34); .
Das Korps Weitzel zieht am 3.4.1865 in Richmond ein, das von Gen. Lee geräumt worden, der sich nach Appomattox zurückgezogen hatte.
Photo:
- Längin, a.a.O., S. 134
Welch, George:
CS-Pvt, Co. C, 26th Regiment North Carolina Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M230 Roll 41); 1862 als Corporal genannt (vgl. Hess: Lee's Tar Heels, a.a.O., S. 29); befördert zum 3d Corporal am 21.8.1862 (vgl. North Carolina. General Assembly: Roster of North Carolina Troops, vol. 2, a.a.O., S. 375).
Welch, Otis G.:
CS-Captain; Welch's Texas Cavalry Squadron; die Einheit gehörte zu BrigGen Albert J. Pikes Brigade, McCulloch‘s Division in Van Dorn‘s Army of the West (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 336); Battle of Pea Ridge am 7.3.1862; Teilnahme am Skirmish bei Forster‘s Farm (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 101)
Welch, Spencer Glasgow:
CS-Surgeon; 13th Regiment North Carolina Infantry (Anm.: Bei National Park Soldiers not mentioned)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Welch, Spencer Glasgow (13th N. Carolina): A Confederate Surgeon's Letters to his Wife (Jim Fox; Reprint of 1911 Scarce Original); 127 pp; Anm.: die Briefe sind bez. der Gettysburg Campaign auch veröffentlicht bei *Brooks, Ulysses Robert;: Stories of the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 35 ff.
Welch, Stephen E.:
CS-++++; Hampton Legion; Welch served first in the South Carolina Militia and then in Hampton's Legion from the beginning of the war until Appomattox.
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Welch, Stephen E.: Stephen Elliott Welch of the Hampton Legion (White Mane); 108 pp; Edited by John M. Priest; Biblio; Index;
Weld, Lewis L.:
Gouverneur von Colorado (vgl. Alberts: The Battle of Glorieta, a.a.O., S. 13).
Weld, Stephen M.:
US-Captain (1862); Weld war Adjutant von GenMaj *Reynolds in der Schlacht von Gettysburg (vgl. Tsouras: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 13). Nach den ersten Feindkontakten entsandte Reynold's, der unmittelbar darauf gefallen ist, Weld mit einer Lageorientierung ins Hauptquartier Meade's bei Taneytown, wo Weld gegen 11.20 A.M. eintraf (vgl. Sauers: The Meade-Sickles Controversy, a.a.O., S. 17 mit Karte S. 13; Pfanz: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 31; Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 95).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Stephen M. Weld: War Diary and Letters of Stephen Minot Weld, 1861-1865 (Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA, 1913; Reprint 1979 by the Massachusetts Historical Society).
Welfley, Martin:
US-Captain; Batteriechef von Welfley’s Independent Battery, Missouri Light Artillery. Die Batterie umfaßte vier 12-pounder Howitzers und zwei 12-pounder Guns. Im Frühjahr 1862 gehörte die Battery als Teil der Divisionsartillerie zur 1st Division Peter J. Osterhaus in Samuel Ryan Curtis' Army of the South West. Besetzung von Springfield Missouri am 13.1.1862, Battle of Pea Ridge (vgl. Shea / Hess, Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 331).
Wellers, Samuel:
US-+++; Soldat in 49th Pennsylvania Infantry; Wellers war zum Tode verurteilt worden; Lincoln ordnete gegenüber Judge Advocat General Joseph *Holt und an MajGen *Meade auf Bitten von Andrew G. *Curtin mit Schreiben vom 5.11.1863 eine Aufschub der Exekution an (vgl. Basler: Collected Works of Lincoln, vol. VII, a.a.O., S. 1-2: Brief Lincoln's an Holt und Meade).
Welles, Gideon:
1802 Glastonbury/CT - 1878; Schüler in der Cheshire Academy in Cheshire / Conn; Klassenkamerad von Andrew *Foote (vgl. West: Gideon Welles, a.a.O., S. 20); Vorkriegszeit Journalist bei der Hartford Times und einer der führenden Politiker der Demokratischen Partei in Connecticut, nach dem Verzicht von Editor Niles einflußreicher Editor der Hartford Times (vgl. West, a.a.O., S. 35), verheiratet mit Mary Jane Hale (vgl. Abb. bei West, a.a.O., S. 54); seit 1845 nach dem Wahlsieg der demokratischen Partei und dem Wahlsieg von Präsident Polk zum Chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing in the Navy Department ernannt, das durch den Krieg mit Mexiko erheblich an Bedeutung gewann, und Welles enorme Erfahrung auf dem Gebiet der Marine gab (vgl. West, a.a.O., S. 61); nach dem Wahlsieg von Zachary Taylor 1849 aus dem Amt entlassen; US-Marineminister (1861-69); Nachkriegstätigkeit: Schriftsteller
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Niven, John: Gideon Welles - Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1973)
- Welles, Gideon: Diary (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Comp., 1911)
- Welles, Gideon: The First Ironclad Monitor; in: Annals of the War, a.a.O., S. 17-31
Welles, Tom G.:
US-Offizier, Sohn von Gideon Welles, seit 11.7.1864 im Stab von Gen McCook (vgl. Welles, Diary II 71).
Wellford, Charles B.:
CS-Pvt; Pollock's Company, Virginia Light Artillery (Fredericksburg Artillery) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 58).
Er war der Sohn v. Charles C. Wellford, dem Proprietor von Catherine's Furnace in der Wilderness (hier führte Jackson's Flankenstoß im Battle of Chancellorsville vorbei [s. Sears: Chancellorsville, a.a.O., S. 242 iVm. S. 234; Karte mit Catherine's Furnace s. Symonds: Battlefield Atlas, a.a.O., S. 58).
Charles B. Wellford war Jackson's guide im Battle of Chancellorsville während des Umgehungsmarsches (vgl. Sears: Chancellorsville, a.a.O., S. 242, 257). Stonewall Jackson hatte Jedediah Hotchkiss zusammen mit Chaplain Lacy beauftragt: Find out what roads they could use, and if they were practical for artillery, and try to procure a local man for a guide (vgl. Sears: Chancellorsville, a.a.O., S. 314).
Um Mitternacht 2./3.5.1863 diente Wellford dem Jed Hotchkiss als Führer, als dieser von Wilderness Tavern aus das CS-Headquarter aufsuchte, um Gen Lee von der Lage nach der Verwundung von Stonewall zu unterrichten (vgl. Sears: Chancellorsville, a.a.O., S. 314).
Wellford, Charles C.:
Proprietor von Catherine's Furnace in der Wilderness (hier führte Jackson's Flankenstoß im Battle of Chancellorsville vorbei [s. Sears: Chancellorsville, a.a.O., S. 242 iVm. S. 234; Karte mit Catherine's Furnace s. Symonds: Battlefield Atlas, a.a.O., S. 58). Stonewall Jackson hatte Jedediah Hotchkiss zusammen mit Chaplain Lacy beauftragt: Find out what roads they could use, and if they were practical for artillery, and try to procure a local man for a guide (vgl. Sears: Chancellorsville, a.a.O., S. 314). Lacy could not say for shure, what kind of roads were usuable for an circuit around the Federal troops, but he knew someone who could: Charles C. Wellford, the proprietor of Catherine's Furnace. Hotchkiss and Chaplain Lacy rode with all speed the two miles to Wellford's House, roused him from his bed, and by the light of a candle in his parlor, he marked on Hotchkiss map what they needed. From Catherine's Furnace, Wellford explained, he had recently opened a road through the forest southwesterly to the Brock Road in order to haul cordwood and ore for his iron-making operations (vgl. Karte bei Simons: Battlefield Atlas, a.a.O., p. 59). He knew also of a byway that should avoid the enemy's pickets. Wellford's son, (former Pvt) Charles B. *Wellford could act as a guide (vgl. Sears: Chancellorsville, a.a.O., S. 234, 241, 244, 256).
Wells, Edward L:
CS-+++; Co K (Charleston Light Dragoons) 4th South Carolina Cavalry; Wells rode and fought with the 4th South Carolina Cavalry, Co. "K" Charleston Light Dragoons and wrote so the sacrifice of his comrades would not be forgotten.
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Wells, Edward L.: A Sketch of the Charleston Light Dragoons (Jim Fox Books; Originally printed in 1888). Traces the Charleston Light Dragoons from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War. This company volunteered for service in 1861 and served as an independent Cavalry Company defending the land approaches to Charleston and keeping the railroad open between Charleston and Savannah. They later became Company "K" of the 4th S. Carolina Cavalry under Butler's Brigade. They served with Hampton in Virginia during the brutal 1864 Overland Campaign where Hampton remarked the action was so intense "We didn't have time to bury our dead."
- Wells, Edward L.: Hampton and his Cavalry in 64 (Jim Fox Books, Reprint of 1899); 429 pp plus Index; Maps, Photos. Hampton fought the Federals at "a time when we couldn't bury our dead." Wells rode and fought with the 4th South Carolina Cavalry, Co. "K" Charleston Light Dragoons and wrote so the sacrifice of his comrades would not be forgotten.
Wells, George D.:
US-LtCol; 1st Massachusetts Infantry (vgl. Davis: Battle of Bull Run, a.a.O., S. 97).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- +Wells, George D.: Letterbook. East Carolina University Library, Greenville, North Carolina
Wells, William:
US-Captain; 1st Vermont Cavalry, Col. C.; am 2.8.1862 Cavalry Skirmish in Orange Court House gegen die 7th Virginia Cavalry (*Laurel Brigade) unter William E. "Grumble" *Jones (Charles H. Tompkins Report: OR 12 [2], 112).
Welsh, George Wilson:
US-1stLt; Co. A, 126th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 129); Bruder von Pvt Phil *Welsh (vgl. Gallagher: Fredericksburg, a.a.O., S. 83, 85, 96).
Urkunden/Urkunden/Literatur:
- George Wilson Welsh and Philip Rudsil Welsh: „Civil War Letters fron Two Brothers“; in: Yale Review 18 (September 1928, S 161)
Welsh, Philip R.:
US-Pvt; Co. A, 126th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 19); Bruder von Lt George *Welsh (vgl. Gallagher: Fredericksburg, a.a.O., S. 83, 85, 96).
Urkunden/Urkunden/Literatur:
- George Wilson Welsh and Philip Rudsil Welsh: „Civil War Letters fron Two Brothers“; in: Yale Review 18 (September 1928, S 161)
Welshimer, Philipp:
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Welshimer, Philipp: Papers (Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield / Illinois)
Wentworth, Edwin O.:
US-Pvt (vgl. Sears: Chancellorsville, a.a.O., S. 13, 76, dagegen im Index, a.a.o., S. 592 als Cpl aufgeführt); Pvt. Co I, 37th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M544 Roll 12).
Wentworth, Robert B.:
US-Pvt; Co. H, 5th Regiment Michigan Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M545 Roll 46).
Wentworth, Robert H.:
US-Pvt; Co. B, 8th Regiment Maine Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M543 Roll 22).
Werth, John:
CS-Pvt, Richmond Howitzer Battalion
Photo:
- Milhollen / Kaplan: Divided We Fought, a.a.O., S. 12
Wenzell, Philip:
US-Sergeant; Co. E, 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M544 Roll 42). Der Kompaniechef Captain Bennett schreibt über ihn: „Sergeant Philip Wenzel was unique in many respects. He was exceedingly courteous and obliging, especially to subordinates, but his courage and firmness on duty were remarkable. He was both loved and respected by those under his control.“ (vgl. Bennett: Musket and Sword, a.a.O., S. 86).
West, George:
Captain (?); Co. G (Missouri Guards od Governor's Guard) 1st Regiment St. Louis, Missouri Volunteer Militia (vgl. Banasik, Michel E. (ed.): Missouri Brothers in Gray. The Reminiscenses and Letters of William J. Bull and John P. Bull, Iowa City 1998, S. 65 Anm. 169).
West, misspelled as „Wert“ in the Official Records, was captured at Camp Jackson, exchanged in November, but never joined either the Missouri State Guard or the Confederate Service. West was a veteran of the Mexican War (vgl. Banasik, Michel E. (ed.): Missouri Brothers in Gray. The Reminiscenses and Letters of William J. Bull and John P. Bull, Iowa City 1998, S. 65 Anm. 169).
West, J. Gilmore:
US-+++; 28th New Jersey Infantry; West was shot in the leg at Fredericksburg and died on the surgeon's table while having his leg amputated
Urkunden/Literatur:
- West, J. Gilmore (28th New Jersey): The Diary of a Soldier (Longstreet House); 120 pp; Rosters
West, Jason M.:
CS-Captain; Co A 4th Alabama Infantry; verwundet im Battle of Hanover Junction
West, John, C.:
CS-Pvt, 4th Texas Infantry (vgl. Pfanz: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 162, 220, 437).
Literatur;
- West, John C.: A Texan in Search of a Fight (Waco: Press of J. S. Hill & Company, 1901)
West, Joseph Rodmann:
US-MajGen; geb. September 19, 1822 – October 31, 1898; was a United States Senator from Louisiana and a general in the United States Army during and after the American Civil War. As a commander of militia, he led troops that killed the Apache chief Mangas Colorada.
US-Col 1st California Regiment of Infantry von June 1, 1862 - April 1864. Born in New Orleans, he moved with his parents to Philadelphia in 1824 and was educated in private schools. He attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1836 to 1837 and moved to New Orleans in 1841; he was a captain attached to Maryland and District of Columbia Volunteers in the Mexican-American War, 1847–1848. He moved to California in 1849 where he engaged in newspaper work in San Francisco, and was proprietor of the San Francisco Price Current. During the Civil War he entered the Union Army as lieutenant of the First Regiment, California Volunteer Infantry, in 1861; he was promoted to the rank of colonel and brigadier general. He spent much of his service in the New Mexico Territory as well as Arizona Territory.
In April 1864, West was ordered to Arkansas to take command of the 2nd Division, VII Corps. He led it through the Red River Campaign. In the fall 1864, under Major General Frederick Steele, he was engaged against Confederate Major General Sterling Price. He next commanded the cavalry in the Department of the Gulf, from May 15 to June 12, 1865. He commanded the 1st Division of Cavalry in the Military Division of the Southwest, composed of two small brigades (six regiments) of volunteer cavalry exempted from mustering out. Accompanied by cavalry commander MajGen Wesley Merritt, he led the division from Shreveport, Louisiana, to San Antonio, Texas, in July 1865 for Reconstruction duty and as a counter to Imperial Mexican forces along the Rio Grande. West was mustered out of volunteer service as a brevetted major general in San Antonio on January 4, 1866.
Following the Civil War, West returned to New Orleans and was deputy United States marshal and auditor for customs from 1867 to 1871. West was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1877; he was not a candidate for reelection. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Railroads (Forty-fourth Congress). He was a member of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia from 1882 to 1885, serving as President of the Board from 1882-1883. He retired from public life in 1885 and died in Washington, D.C. in 1898; interment was in Arlington National Cemetery.
Photo: West als US-Senator von Louisiana
West, Waldo J.:
US-Lt; 1st New York Dragoons
Urkunden/Literatur:
- West, Waldo J.: Correspondence, 1864. Lieutenant in the 1st New York Dragoons. Three letters written between January and July, 1864, to Sarah L. (Lyra) Stillson of Corning, New York, from Dansville, New York, and camps in Washington, D.C. Writes about his visit home and his company's reconnaissance to the Rapidan River. (Virginia Tech, Univ. Libraries, Special Collections: Civil War guide. Manuscript Sources for Civil War Research in the Special Collections Department of the Virginia Tech Libraries Ms 89-066).
Westbrook, Robert S.:
US-Sergeant; Co. B&D, 49th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 130).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Westbrook, Robert S.: History of the 49th Pennsylvania Volunteers (Butternut and Blue); 272 pp; Reprint of Scarce 1898; One of Fox's Fighting 300, the 49th Pennsylvania, fought at Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Mine Run, Wilderness, Petersburg, Williamsburg, Malvern Hill and Gettysburg; Rosters
Westervelt, William B.:
US-Lt; Corporal (Pvt) Co. F, 27th Regiment New York Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M551 Roll 150); später Lt (Pvt), Co. K&E, 17th Regiment New York Veteran Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M551 Roll 150).
Westervelt first enlisted in the 27th New York Infantry, a 2 year unit and helped write the Regimental History of that unit. He later served with the 17th New York Veteran Zouaves, first as a Sergeant and ending as a Lieutenant. He was nominated for the Medal of Honor.
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Westervelt, William B. (27th and 17th NY): Lights and Shadows of Army Life: From Bull Run to Bentonville (White Mane, 1997; Reprint der Originalausgabe von 1886); edited by George Maharay; 273 pp, Index, Photos, Illustrations, Maps, Biblio
Westmoreland, George:
CS-Pvt, Co. G, 36th Tennessee Infantry Regiment (CS) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M231 Roll 46).
Weston, Eli:
US-Major; Regimentskommandeur 24th Missouri Infantry (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 334). 1862 während der Pea Ridge Campaign war Weston zugleich Provost Marshall der Army of the Southwest und damit u.a. für den Schutz des rückwärtigen Gebiets verantwortlich (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 88). Weston stellte aufgrund seiner Sicherungen den CS-Umgehungsversuch in den Rücken von Curtis' Army of the Southwest bei Elkhorn Tavern fest (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 88-89; OR 8: 270-71).
Weston, J. A.:
CS-Major; Weston's Battalion, Maryland Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M379 Roll 2).
Westray, George W.:
CS-First Lieutenant, Co. A, 47th North Carolina Infantry Regiment (vgl. National Park Soldiers M230 Roll 41).
Westren, George:
CS-+++; Co. K, 1st Regiment Alabama Conscripts (vgl. National Park Soldiers M374 Roll 47).
Westren, George H.:
CS-Pvt, Co. E, 2nd Battalion Alabama Light Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M374 Roll 47).
Westren, George H.:
CS-Pvt, Co. E, 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment (vgl. National Park Soldiers M374 Roll 47).
Westry, George W.:
CS-Pvt; Co. I, 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment (6 Month 1861) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M230 Roll 41).
Weygant, Charles H.:
US-Captain; Co. A, 124th Regiment New York Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M551 Roll 150).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Weygant, Charles H.: History of the 124th Regiment N.Y.S.V. (Newburg 1877); First Edition, 460 pages. 124th New York Infantry with steel-engraved frontis of Colonel Ellis; Folding Table of Gettysburg Battle-line 2nd Day
Wehmouth, Harrison O. G.:
US-Captain; Co. G, 19th Massachusetts Infantry (vgl. Brooks: Marye's Heights, a.a.O., S. 51; Waitt, Ernest L.: History of the Nineteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, a.a.O., S. 5). Im Dezember 1862 vor Fredericksburg gehörte die 19th Massachusetts Infantry zu Col Norman *Hall's Truppen, der 3. Brigade (7th Michigan, 20th Mass. und 19th Mass.) 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. Die Brigade war eingesetzt, um die Scharfschützen in Fredericksburg zu vertreiben, die den Brückenbau über den Rappahannock immer wieder stoppten; hierzu wurden seine Truppen, als erste das 7th Michigan unter LtCol Henry *Baxter, unter Artillerieschutz und unter dem Beifall von Zuschauern bei Verlusten durch feindlichen Scharfschützenbeschuß in Booten über den Rappahannock übergesetzt, wo sie im Straßen- und Häuserkampf die am Wasser gelegenen Häuser von feindlichen Scharfschützen der Mississippi Brigade BrigGen *Barkdale's säuberten (Report von Col. Norman J. Hall, OR 21:282-84; abgedruckt bei Luvaas / Nelson: Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg, a.a.O., S. 15-18; vgl. Curtis: 24th Michigan Infantry, a.a.O., S. 87; Brooks: Marye's Heights, a.a.O., S. 49). Zuerst wurde die 7th Michigan Infantry übergesetzt, die die Hauptlast des Kampfes trug (vgl. Curtis: 24th Michigan Infantry, a.a.O., S. 87).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Weymouth, Harrison O. G.: „The Crossing of the Rappahannock by the 19th Massachusetts; in: B&L III, S. 121
Westervelt, William B.:
US-Lt; Co. K&E, 17th Regiment New York Veteran Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M551 Roll 150); zuvor Corporal, Co. F, 27th Regiment New York Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M551 Roll 150).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Westervelt, William B. (27th and 17th NY): Lights and Shadows of Army Life: From Bull Run to Bentonville (White Mane, 1997; Reprint der Originalausgabe von 1886); edited by George Maharay; 273pp, Index, Photos, Illustrations, Maps, Biblio
Weyrich, E. J.:
US-1stLt; zunächst 2nd Lt Co A, 9th Regiment Illinois Infantry (vgl. Morrison: The Ninth Regiment, a.a.O., S. 13). Befördert zum 1st Lt am 2.12.1861; resigned 25.12.1861 (vgl. Morrison, a.a.O., S. 16).
Whaley, Edward A.:
US-Captain; Co. C, 6th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry; er trat als Corporal in das Regiment ein (vgl. NARA microfilm publication M559 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 31); 1862 während des Battle of South Mountain war Whaley als Sergeant in Co. C, 6th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry und wurde bei South Mountain verwundet (vgl. Herdegen/Beaudot: Bloody Railroad Cut, a.a.O., S. 30).
Wham, Joseph W.:
US-Major, 21st Regiment Illinois Infantry (vgl. Catton: Grant Moves South, a.a.O., S., 491 Anm. 2, 3; vgl. National Tribune v. 27.9.1885: Interview with Major J. W. Wham); bzw. 1stLt Co. G, 21st Regiment Illinois Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 96); Wham trat als Pvt in das Regiment ein (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 96).
Wharton, Gabriel C.:
CS-Col; Angriff auf Packs's Ferry, WVa. am 6.8.1862. Bei Pack's Ferry, WVa. befand sich im Sommer 1862 ein US-Stützpunkt von 4 Kompanien der 23rd Ohio Infantry unter Major James M. *Comly, der am 6.8.1862 von einem CS-Regiment unter Führung von CS-Col Gabriel C. Wharton aus Richtung Peterstown angegriffen wurde (vgl. Report von Jakob D. Cox OR 12 [2] S. 127; Report Col E. Parker Scammon OR 12 [2] S. 128; Report MajGen William W. Loring OR 12 [2] S. 129; Karte bei Davis Nr. 141).
Wharton, Henry C.:
US-Lt; Engineers Corps (Welcher / Ligget: Coburn's Brigade, a.a.O., S. 115); im Juni 1863 war Davis Judge Advocate im Kriegsgerichtsverfahren gegen CS-Col William Orton *Williams (Welcher / Ligget: Coburn's Brigade, a.a.O., S. 116).
Wharton, Jack:
CS-Captain, 6th Texas Cavalry; zeitweise Regimentskommandeur 6th Texas Cavalry ab Spätjahr 1862 (vgl. Bearss, Vicksburg Campaign, a.a.O., I 90). Das Regiment gehörte im November / Dezember 1862 unter Captain Jack *Wharton bei der Abwehr von Grant's Stoß entlang der Mississippi Central Railroad zu John S. *Griffith's Cavalry Brigade (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg Campaign, a.a.O., vol. I S. 90).
Wharton, John A.:
CS-MajGen; ?-6.4.1865; aus Texas; in der Vorkriegszeit Rechtsanwalt; Captain in B. F. Terry's Texas Ranger Regiment (8th Texas Cavalry Regiment) und kämpfte im Battle von Woodsonville / Kentucky am 17.12.1861. Kurz danach zum Col befördert. Als Regimentskommandeur von Wharton's Texas Cavalry Regiment (8th Texas Cavalry Regiment) in Shiloh verwundet.
Am 6.4.1862 im Battle of Shiloh gegen 2:30 unternahm die berittene Einheit eine Flankierung gegen die rechte Front der US-Truppen durch Sowell Field gegen die Nordwestecke von *Jones Field. Hierbei gerieten die Texas Rangers in einen Hinterhalt, und wurden durch massives Flankierungsfeuer in ihre rechte Flanke zurückgeschlagen (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 190).
Teilnahme an der Kentucky Campaign. BrigGen 18.11.1862; Brigadekommandeur unter Hardee im Battle von Stones River und in Chickamauga. Im Herbst 1863 war Wharton Divisionskommandeur einer Cavalry Division in Joseph Wheeler's Cavalry Corps; Teilnahme an Wheeler's Raid nach Tennessee im Oktober 1863. MajGen 10.11.1863 (vgl. Welcher / Ligget: Coburn’s Brigade, a.a.O., S. 136-137). Nach seiner Versetzung ins Trans-Mississippi-Department kommandierte er die CS-Cavalry in der Red River Campaign 1864 (vgl. Boatner, a.a.O., S. 909). Am 6.4.1865 hatte er eine Auseinandersetzung mit einem Col in deren Verlauf er seinen Kontrahenten ohrfeigte. Dieser zog daraufhin eine Pistole und erschoß Wharton (vgl. Davis / Wiley: Photographic History, vol 2: Vicksburg to Appomattox, a.a.O., S. 330).
Photo:
- Davis / Wiley: Photographic History, vol 2: Vicksburg to Appomattox, a.a.O., S. 330
Wharton, Rufus Watson:
CS-Major, 1st NC Sharpshooters Battalion
Photo:
Major Rufus Watson Wharton (vgl. http://www.ncscv.org/).
Wheat, Hesekiah J.:
CS-2ndLt; Co. E, 16th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M378 Roll 31).
Wheat, Roberdeau L.:
CS-Major; im Juli 1861 kommandierte Wheat die 'Louisiana Tigers', das 1st Louisiana Battalion (vgl. Davis, Battle at Bull Run, a.a.O., S. 174). Die Truppe führte im Train mehrere als Männer verkleidete Frauen mit, bei denen es sich wohl um 'vivandieres' aus New Orleans gehandelt haben soll (vgl. Blackford: Letters from Lee's Army, a.a.O., 23).
Wheat commanded the "Louisiana Tigers" and was a gallant and dashing figure who charmed the ladies and was idolized by his men for his dash and gallantry.
Wheat was a warrior by nature and physique, 191 cm groß und 250 pounds (113kg); he had volunteered to fight with William Walker in Nicaragua and Guiseppe Garibaldi in Italy (vgl. Craughwell: Greatest Brigade, a.a.O., S. 54).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Dufour, Charles L.: Gentle Tiger: The Gallant Life of Roberdeau Wheat (LSU Press; Reprint of 1957 Original, 256 pp, Maps, Illustrated)
Wheaton, Francis L.:
US-Truppenarzt; im Zivilberuf Arzt, im Juli 1861 Truppenarzt der 2nd Rhode Island Infantry; Vater des damaligen LtCol der 2nd Rhode Island Inf Frank *Wheaton (vgl. Rhodes, Elisha Hunt:: All for the Union, a.a.O., S. 15)
Wheaton, Frank:
US-MajGen (US-Army und USV); Sohn des Arztes Francis L. Wheaton (vgl. Rhodes, Elisha Hunt:: All for the Union, a.a.O., S. 15); US-Berufsoffizier, ++++ (vgl. Boatner, Civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 910); LtCol 2nd Rhode Island im Juli 1861 (vgl. Rhodes, Elisha Hunt:: All for the Union, a.a.O., S. 15); Col 2nd RI als Nachfolger des in Bull Run First gefallenen Col. John S. *Slocum (vgl. Rhodes, Elisha Hunt:: All for the Union, a.a.O., S. 23); im Juli 1862 kommandierte er bei *Harrison Landing, VA (nahe Malvern Hill) die Brigade Palmer (vgl. Rhodes, Elisha Hunt:: All for the Union, a.a.O., S. 66)
Photo:
- Rhodes, Elisha Hunt:: All for the Union, a.a.O., S. 20
Wheaton, William:
US-Lieutenant; Bruder von Frank *Wheaton; im Juli 1862 Offizier im Stab von General Palmer bei Malvern Hill (vgl. Rhodes, Elisha Hunt:: All for the Union, a.a.O., S. 66)
Wheeler, Alfred:
US-Chaplain, Co. F&S, 55 th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 116).
Photo:
Rev. Alfred Wheeler (vgl. Osborn: Trials and Triumphs. The Record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a.a.O., S. 52)
Wheeler, John P.:
US-Pvt; 54th Ohio Infantry; Teilnahme am Battle of Shiloh (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 198).
Wheeler, Joseph:
CS-MajGen; geboren 1836 in Georgia, wurde Wheeler in West Point 1959 graduiert (19/22); als 2nd Lieutenant zunächst in 1st US-Dragoons, dann versetzt zu den US-Mounted Rifles; im März 1861 schloß er sich der CS an und diente zunächst als 1st Lieutenant der Artillerie in Pensacola / Fl bis seine Entlassung aus der US-Armee abgeschlossen war. Befördert 1861 zum Colonel der CS Volunteers wurde er Regimentskommandeur der 19th Alabama Infantry (weiter Coffey: John Bell Hood, a.a.O., S. 28)
Das Regiment gehörte im Battle of Shiloh zum II. Army Corps MajGen Braxton Bragg 2nd Division BrigGen Jones M. Withers 3rd Brigade BrigGen John K. Jackson (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 321). Bis 31.3.1862 war das Regiment bei Monterey als Vorpostenregiment mit Sicherungsaufgaben betraut, um die CS-Hauptkräfte bei Corinth / Nord-Mississippi gegen einen Überraschungsstoß von Grant’s Army of the Tennessee zu sichern (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 116).
Vom 30.9.1863 - 9.10.1863 führte Wheeler während der Chattanooga Campaign den Stoß der CS-Cavalry in Tennessee gegen die Verbindungen von Rosecrans' Army of the Tennessee (vgl. Welcher / Ligget: Coburn's Brigade, a.a.O., S. 136; Boatner, a.a.O., S. 910). Wheeler's Raid führte zunächst zur Zerstörung des US-Depots bei McMinnville / Tennessee durch die CS-Cavalry-Division von BrigGen John A. *Wharton. Das US-Depot wurde von der 4th Tennessee Infantry (US) unter Major Michael L. Patterson verteidigt (vgl. Welcher / Ligget: Coburn's Brigade, a.a.O., S. 136).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Dodson, William Carey (ed.): Campaigns of Wheeler and His Cavalry, 1862-1865 (Atlanta: Hudgins Publishing Co., 1899)
- **Dubose, John Witherspoon: "General Joseph Wheeler and the Army of Tennessee" (Neale, New York 1912); 476 pp, Photos, Index
- Dyer, John P.: Fighting Joe Wheeler (Olde Soldier Books); 417 pp; Reprint of 1941 original; Considered by many to be the best biography on the noted Confederate commander. Wheeler rose from company officer to command the Cavalry of the Army of Tennessee. He had a dozen horses shot out from under him and was wounded three times; Photos, Index, Maps
- **Dyer, John P.: From Shiloh to San Juan: The Life of "Fightin' Joe Wheeler (LSU Press), 275 pp
- The Equestrian Statue of Major General Joseph Hooker (Wright and Potter, Boston 1903); The dedication of this statue was attended by much pomp and circumstance, the like of which was not seen since. "The North Atlantic Fleet lay at anchor in Boston Harbor." ...fifteen thousand men...paraded through the streets of Boston..." Distinguished visitors who rode in the parade included LtGen. Miles, MajGen. Sickles, Gen O. O. Howard , Maj Gen Joshua Chamberlain and others - Speeches - Photos - A Fine Collector's item.
Wheeler, J. T.:
CS-Col; Brigadekommandeur in Col William H. 'Red' Jackson's Cavalry in Nord Mississippi im November 1862 während Grant's Vorstoß gegen Holly Springs (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, a.a.O., Vol. I, S. 50).
Whelan, Henry C.:
US-Major; zunächst First Lieutenant, Co. F., 17th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (3 month, 1861) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 130), dann Captain und zuletzt Major, Co. C, 6th Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry (70th Volunteers) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 130); mustered in as Captain Co. C, 6th Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry on September 10, 1861. Promoted to Major on March 1, 1863, he received a commission on Lieutenant Colonel on September 20, 1863, but was not mustered into that rank. He died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of pulmonary disease on March 2, 1864; beerd. Saint Mary's Catholic Churchyard Philadelphia / Pennsylvania (vgl. findagrave.com, Abruf 6.10.2016).
Urkunden/Urkunden/Literatur:
- Longacre: The Cavalry at Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 72-73, 84, 284 n. 68
- Whelan, Henry C.: Letter to his Sister vom 11.6.1863, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Whelan, Henry C.: Letter to Charles C. Cadwalader vom 11.6.1863, Cadwalader Family Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Whetstone, W. D.:
CS-Lt, 21 Alabama Infantry (erwähnt bei Davis: Jackman Diary, a.a.O., S. 26, Anm. 42).
Whipple, William D.:
US-MajGen (USV); aus New York; West Point 1851 (31/42); Stabschef von MajGen George H. Thomas; Nachkriegszeit Officer Regular Army; Col (USA); ADC Sherman's 1873-81; retired 1890 als Col (USA).
Whitaker, Walter C.:
US-BrigGen; Brigadekommandeur von Whitaker's Brigade.
Im Sommer und Herbst 1863 gehörte Whitaker's Brigade zu Absalom Baird's 1st Division / Gordon Granger's Reserve Corps / Army of the Cumberland (vgl. Welcher / Ligget: Coburn's Brigade, a.a.O., S. 133). Im August 1863 nach Abschluß der Tullahoma Campaign und nach Beginn des Vormarschs von Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland in Richtung auf Chattanooga führte Whitaker vorübergehend während des Urlaubs von MajGen Absalom *Baird bis 11.8.1863 dessen Division (vgl. Welcher / Ligget: Coburn's Brigade, a.a.O., S. 133)
Die Brigade gehörte während Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign 1864 als 2nd Brigade zu Thomas Army of the Cumberland, IV. Corps MajGen Oliver Otis *Howard, 1st Division MajGen David S. Stanley (vgl. B & L vol. IV, S. 284). Im Battle of Resaca am 14./15.5.1864 stand Stanley’s Division auf dem äußersten linken Flügel der US-Front. Dieser wurde vom Corps Hood’s, Stevenson’s Division angegriffen und geworfen (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 164 mit Karte S. 155). Die Brigade setzte sich wie folgt zusammen:
- 96th Illinois Infantry Col Thomas E. Champion
- 115th Illinois Infantry Col Jesse H. Moore
- 35th Indiana Infantry Major John P. Dufficy
- 84th Indiana Infantry LtCol Andrew J. Neff
- 21st Kentucky Infantry Col Samuel W. Price
- 40th Ohio Infantry Col Jacob E. Taylor
- 51st Ohio Infantry LtCol C. H. Wood
- 99th Ohio Infantry LtCol John E. Cummings
Whitaker, William Benjamin:
CS-Captain; Co. I 16th North Carolina Infantry; of Henderson County, North Carolina. He’d enlisted in Company I of the 16th Infantry in May 1861, zunächst First Sergeant and was promoted Captain in April 1862. Gefallen bei Fredericksburg am 13.12.1862, beerd. Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery, Henderson County, North Carolina.
Photo:
Captain William Benjamin Whitaker (http://www.findagrave.com/)
White, Elijah V.:
CS-Col, White's Cavalry (vgl. Williamson: Mosby, a.a.O., Kap 2 S. 29); auch White's Comanches; das 35th Virginia Cavalry Battalion aus der *Laurel Brigade (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 13). Im Frühling / Frühsommer 1862 gehörte Captain White's Comanches zu den Headquarter Truppen von Ewell's Division als Scouts und Guides (vgl. Krick, Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 53; Pfanz: Ewell, a.a.O., S. 168). Anfang August 1862 Teilnahme an Jackson's Vorstoß gegen Pope's Army of Virginia. Teilnahme am Battle of Cedar Mountain am 9.8.1862; am frühen Morgen befanden sich White's Comanches bei Petty's House (vgl. Krick: Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 50 mit Karte S. 48); LtCol White's Cavalry wurde am 25.6.1863 dem Kommando von Gen. Jubal A. Early unterstellt und als vorgeschobene Aufklärung bei dem Vorstoß auf Gettysburg und York am 26.6.1863 eingesetzt (vgl. Early: War Memoirs, a.a.O., S. 255, 256; vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 13, 46; vgl. Shultz/Mingus: Gettysburg Second Day, a.a.O., S. 10).
1865 war White kurzzeitig Brigadekommandeur der *Laurel Brigade.
Photo:
Military Portrait of E.V. White (vgl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_V._White)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- McDonald, William: Laurel Brigade, a.a.O., S. 105-08, 112, 122, 126-27, 137, 139-144, 152-54, 228,. 234, 236, 248, 254, 295, 377-78, 381
- Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 13
- **Myers, Frank: The Comanches: A History of White's Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Laurel Brigade, Hampton Div., A.N.V., CSA (Baltimore: Kelly, Pieta & Co., 1871, Reprinted 1987 by Butternut Press)
White, Horace:
US-Journalist; Redakteur der Chicago Tribune; Mitglied der Republican Party; White hatte im Wahlkampf von 1860 die Berichterstattung der Lincoln-Douglas-Debatten übernommen; nach Lincoln's Wahl wurde White in den Präsidenten-Stab im Weißen Haus berufen (vgl. Nevins, Improvised War, a.a.O., S. 32).
White, Hugh A.:
CS-Captain; Co. I, 4th Regiment Virginia Infantry; White trat als Pvt in das Regiment ein (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 59).
Sohn von Reverend William S. White; Stonewall Brigade; CS-Pvt in der Headquarter Guard von Jackson's Valley Army im März 1862 (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 103);
Urkunden/Literatur:
- White, Hugh A.: Correspondence. Eleasnor S. Brockenbrough Library, Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond/VA
- White, William S.: Sketches of the Life of Captain Hugh A. White (Columbia, SC.: Columbia Steam Press, 1864)
White, Isaac:
CS-Surgeon; 1837 Charlottesville, Va.- 1889; aus Shawsville in Montgomery County, Virginia. He served in various regiments during the war, including the 29th Virginia Infantry Regiment, the 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment, and the 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry Regiment. He also served, between September 1862 and January 1863 as an assistant surgeon at Montgomery White Sulphur Springs Hospital. White graduated in 1859 from the Medical College of Virginia.
Urkunden/Literatur:
**White, Isaac: Papers, 1861-1938. Assistant surgeon in the Confederate Army. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, White graduated in 1859 from the Medical College of Virginia. He resided in Upshur County, Virginia (now West Virginia) before the war, and then in Shawsville in Montgomery County, Virginia, until his death. He served in various regiments during the war, including the 29th Virginia Infantry Regiment, the 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment, and the 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry Regiment. He also served, between September 1862 and January 1863 as an assistant surgeon at Montgomery White Sulphur Springs Hospital. The papers consist of letters from White to his wife in Shawsville, written mostly while encamped along the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in 1863 and 1864. He describes the losses to his regiment suffered during the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863), the Battles of New Market and Spotsylvania (May 1864), and the Battle of Winchester (September 1864). (Virginia Tech, Univ. Libraries, Special Collections: Civil War guide. Manuscript Sources for Civil War Research in the Special Collections Department of the Virginia Tech Libraries Ms 97-013).
White, James Bamford:
CS-+++; 6.6.1842 Winchester / Clarke County / KY - † 25.3.1931 Irvine, Estill County / KY
U.S. Congressman, Civil War Confederate Veteran. Elected as a Democrat to represent Kentucky's 10th District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1901 to 1903. A native of Winchester, Kentucky, he enlisted in the Confederate Army when he was 21 years old and served under Major General John C. Breckinridge. After the war, he returned to Kentucky and studied law while teaching school in Irvine. He was admitted to the bar in 1867 and practiced as an attorney in Estill County, Kentucky. He became the prosecuting attorney of Estill County in 1872 and served until 1880. He was elected as a United States Congressman in 1901, was not a candidate for renomination in 1902, and resumed his law profession until he retired in 1919. He died at his residence in Irvine when he was 88 years old (vgl. http://www.findagrave.com).
White, James D.:
CS-Col; Co. F&S, 12th Missouri Infantry Regiment (CS) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M380 Roll 15).
James D. White was commissioned a captain in the First Division, Missouri State Guard im Mai 1861. In October 1861 he was elected colonel, Third Cavalry Regiment of his State Guard Division, but mustered out in December 1861. General Hindman appointed White commander of a Missouri Regiment on 29.8.1862. White resigned from the service on 13.2.1863, but his resignation was never accepted. He departed his regiment on 28.8.1863 and went on to become the Provost Marshal of the Second Arkansas District, which encompassed the lower Arkansas River (vgl. Banasik, Michel E. (ed.): Missouri Brothers in Gray. The Reminiscenses and Letters of William J. Bull and John P. Bull, Iowa City 1998, S. 58 Anm. 151; vgl. National Archives, Record Group 109, Confederate Muster Rolls, Twelfth Missouri Infantry; vgl. Peterson: Sterling Price's Lieutenants, a.a.O., S. 53-54; vgl. OR 48, S. 249).
White, James J.:
CS-Captain; Co. I, 4th Regiment Virginia Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 59; vgl. Wert: Brotherhood in Valor, a.a.O., S. 60, 63).
Urkunden/Urkunden/Literatur:
- **White, James Jones (Captain, 4th Regiment Virginia Infantry): Letters. Southern Historical Collection. Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill/NC
White, Julius:
US-BrigGen; 23.9.1816 New York - 12.5.1890 in Evanstown; aus New York; Rechtsanwalt und Abgeordneter; 18.9.1861 Col 37th Illinois Infantry; Teilnahme an Frémonts Southwest Missouri Expedition (vgl. Boatner, a.a.O., S. 914). In der Pea Ridge Campaign vom Frühjahr 1862 war Col White Brigadekommandeur 2nd Brigade 3rd Division Jefferson C. Davis in Samuel R. Curtis Army of the Southwest (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 333); die Brigade umfaßte folgende Regimenter (vgl. Shea / Hess, Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 333):
- 37th Illinois Infantry LtCol Myron S. *Barnes
- 59th Illinois Infantry LtCol Calvin H. *Frederick
- Battery A, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery (Peoria Battery) Captain Peter *Davidson
Eingesetzt im Battle von Pea Ridge am 7.3.1862. Die Brigade wurde bei der Verstärkung von Osterhaus 1st Division bei Oberson‘s Field eingesetzt (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 120 mit Karte S. 108) im Wald von Morgan's Woods ostwärts Oberson's Field an der Leetown Road. Sie stieß überraschend im dichten Unterholz auf Truppen der CS-Brigade Louis *Hébert (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 122 mit Karten S. 108 und 123). In der Nachkriegszeit wurde White durch Gerüchte verdächtigt, er habe seine Brigade im Gefecht von Morgan's Woods schlecht geführt, was einige der Offiziere der 37th Illinois Infantry veranlaßte in einen 'Testimonial Letter' White zu verteidigen (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 361 Anm. 43; Julius White Testimonial Letter: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Special Collections)
BrigGen 9.6.1862. BrigGen White verteidigte im September 1862 Martinsburg / Virginia. Jackson's Angriff auf Harper's Ferry (Lee's Maryland Campaign vom September 1862) setzte die Einnahme von Martinsburg voraus. Jackson's 3 Divisionen überquerten am 11. September 1863 den Potomac von Frederick City / Maryland nach Süden stoßend, und griffen White's 2500 Verteidiger an. Diesen blieb angesichts der herannahenden Übermacht nur der Rückzug auf Harper's Ferry (vgl. Sears: Landscape Turned Red, a.a.O., S. 95; Douglas: I Rode with Stonewall, a.a.O., S. 155-157).
Zu White's Brigade gehörte im September 1862 u.a. das 9th Vermont Infantry Regiment (vgl. Ripley, Edward H.: „Memories of the Ninth Vermont at the Tragedy of Harper's Ferry, Sept. 15, 1862“, Personal Recollections of the War of the Rebellion [New York 1912]; vgl. (vgl. Ledoux: „Quite ready to be sent somewhere“. The Civil War Letters of Aldace Freeman Walker, a.a.O., S. 25 und S. 42 Anm. 5).
Commander Illinois MOLLUS am 2.7.1879; gestorben in Evanstown am 12.5.1890. White ist beerdigt auf dem Rose Hill Cemetery in Chicago.
Photo:
- Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 126
Urkunden/Literatur:
- White, Julius: Letter, September 5, 1868; 1 item. Letter, signed by Lt. Colonel E. B. Dayne, First Lieutenant E. P. Messer, and Captain E. N. B. Messer, of the Thirty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, all of Lake County, Illinois, testifying to the favorable conduct of Brigadier General Julius White during the battle of Pea Ridge (Benton County) on March 6-8, 1862. Apparently written during a post-war political campaign, this letter refutes allegations made against White, accusing him of cowardice during the fight (Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Manuscript Resources for the Civil War, Compiled by Kim Allen Scott, 1990)
White, William S., Dr.:
Reverend; aus Lexington / Va.; Pastor der Lexington Presbyterian Church von 1848-1867, zu deren Gemeindemitgliedern Stonewall Jackson zählte; White war ein enger Freund von Jackson; Vater von CS-Captain Hugh A. *White (vgl. Douglas: I rode with Jackson, a.a.O., S. 361 Anm. 5)
Urkunden/Literatur:
- White, William S.: Sketches of the Life of Captain Hugh A. White (Columbia, SC.: Columbia Steam Press, 1864)
White, William Wilkerson:
CS-Col, 1863 Regimentskommandeur 7th Georgia Infantry (vgl. Penny / Laine: Struggle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 28).
Während der Gettysburg Campaign 1863 gehörte das Regiment unter Col William Wilkerson White zum I. Army Corps Longstreet 3rd Division (Hood's Division) MajGen John B. Hood, 2nd Brigade BrigGen George Thomas “Tige” Anderson.
White, Wyman S.:
US-First Sergeant; Co. F, 2nd Regiment U.S. Sharpshooters (vgl. National Park Soldiers M1290 Roll 2); zuvor First Sergeant 5th Regiment New Hampshire Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M549 Roll 13).
White joined a New Hampshire company of the 2nd U.S.S.S in November 1861 and served in every battle except two.
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **White, Wyman S. (1st Sgt, 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters): The Civil War Diary of Wyman S. White; ed. Russell C. White (Butternut and Blue); 400 pp, Maps, Illustrations, Index, Appendices. White joined a New Hampshire company of the 2nd U.S.S.S in November 1861 and served in every battle except two. These memoirs provide a vivid picture of army life and battle action. Loaded with personal insights, humor, and superb detail of events, personalities, uniforms, equipment and soldier life
Whitehouse, Stephen C.:
US-Captain; Co. K, 16th Maine Infantry Regiment (vgl. National Park Soldiers M543 Roll 23); † kia 1.7.1863 Gettysburg (vgl. Gettysburg Commission: Maine at Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 77).
Whitfield, John W.:
CS-Col; Kommandeur und Major des 4th Texas Cavalry Battalion. Im Februar 1862 während der Pea Ridge Campaign gehörte das Regiment zu 2nd Brigade Col Louis *Hébert in BrigGen Benjamin *McCulloch's Division.
Im März 1863 war Col Whitfield Brigadekommandeur von Whitfield's Cavalry Brigade in William H. 'Red' Jackson's 2nd Cavalry Division in Earl Van Dorn's First Confederate Cavalry Corps und eingesetzt in Tennessee gegen den Vorstoß der US-Truppen von Nashville nach Süden. Jackson's Cavalry Division bestand aus den Kavalleriebrigaden von BrigGen Frank C. Armstrong und Col John W. Whitfield sowie Captain Huston *King's 2nd Battery Missouri Light Artillery. Gefecht gegen Coburn's Brigade bei Thompson's Station (vgl. Welcher / Ligget: Coburn's Brigade, a.a.O., S. 56).
Whitfield, Smith:
CS-Lieutenant; Co. B, 24th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
Photo:
CS-Lieutenant Smith Whitfield, Co. B, 24th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
Whitford, Jhn:
CS-LtCol, 1st NC Local Defense Battalion
Photo:
CS-LtCol John Whitford (http://www.ncscv.org/).
Whiting, Henry:
US-Col; Co. F&S, 2nd Regiment Vermont Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M557 Roll 14).
Col. Whiting stammte aus Michigan, und wurde durch Anordnung von Vermont Gouverneur Fairbanks vom 6.6.1861 zum Colonel des Vermont Regiments ernannt, was zunächst bei den Regimentsangehörigen zur erheblicher Verärgerung führte und Ablehnung des Fremden aus Michigan führte; Whiting wurde schließlich akzeptiert, die Anerkennung durch Überreichung eines Ehrendegens zum Ausdruck gebracht (vgl. Fisk, a.a.O., Brief vom 6.3.1861; s. auch Fisk, a.a.O., Anm. S. 369 Nr, 6).
Whiting, William Henry Chase:
CS-MajGen; vgl. Gen Joseph E. Johnston: Military Operations, a.a.O., S. 14; Symonds: Joseph E. Johnston, a.a.O., S. 102); 1861 Col. in Charleston (Chestnut, Diary, S. 31)
Whitley, Joel W.:
CS-Second Lieutenant; Hankins' Company, Virginia Light Artillery (Surry Light Artillery) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 19); Whitley war zunächst Commissary Sergeant der Surry Light Artillery und wurde im August 1862 zum Nachfolger des zum 1st Lieutenant gewählten bisherigen 2nd Lieutenant W. R. Barban gewählt (vgl. Jones: Under the Stars and Bars: Surry Light Artillery of Virginia, a.a.O., S. 51, 56).
Whitman, George Washington:
US-Major; Co. D&K, 51st Regiment New York Infantry; Whitman trat als Lt in das Regiment ein (vgl. National Park Soldiers M551 Roll 151).
George Whitman was the younger brother of Poet Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman traveled to Fredericksburg when he learned his brother had been wounded and stayed to become a nurse, writing about the war and tending the wounded.
Urkunden/Literatur:
- **Whitman, George Washington (51st NY Vols): Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman (Duke University, 1975); 173 pp; Photos; Index. The 51st New York, known as the Shepard Rifles, fought with Burnside and Pope, fighting at New Berne, Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Spottsylvania, Cold harbor, Petersburg and Appomattox
Whitney, F. W.:
US-Pvt Co B 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 65).
Whittier, Charles A.:
US-Captain; Co. AEK, 20th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry (National Park Soldiers M544 Roll 43; Mackowski/White: Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front, p. 38).
Documents/Literature:
- Whittier, Charles: Diary; Frederick and Spotsylvania National bound manuscript collection, vol 266, 6
Whittier, Edward N.:
US-Lt; 5th Battery Maine Light Artillery („E“); former Sergeant, 5th Battery Maine Light Artillery („E“) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M543 Roll 23; vgl. Gettysburg Commission: Maine at Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 82).
Whittier, John Greenleaf:
s. auch Barbara *Frietchie
amerikanischer Volksdichter; vgl. auch das Gedicht über die Besiedlung von Kansas, abgedruckt bei Starr: Jennison's Jayhawkers, a.a.O., S. 5.
Durch Gedicht von Amerikas sentimentalen Volksdichter John G. Whittier, das ihren Namen trägt, wurde Barbara *Frietchie unsterblich. Das Gedicht wurde erstmals veröffentlicht in der Zeitung "Atlantic" im Oktober 1863 (vgl. Sears: Landscape Turned Red, a.a.O., S. 93). Nach Whittier's Gedicht soll die 95jährige beim Einmarsch von Stonewall Jackson's Truppen am 6.9.1862 in Frederick mutig eine US-Fahne geschwungen haben. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, but spare your country's flag": Barbara Frietchie zieht hierdurch in die Geschichte ein. Es handelt sich hierbei wohl um reine Dichtung. Col Henry Kid *Douglas, aus dem Stab Jackson's, begleitete diesen während des gesamten Aufenthalts in Frederick, und berichtet das Gegenteil von Whittier's Erzählung (vgl. Douglas, a.a.O., S. 151-52). Auch Valerius Ebert bestätigt den Bericht Douglas'. Die alte Dame war in dieser Zeit ans Bett gefesselt. Tatsächlich wurde die Fahne von Mrs. Mary A. Quantrill, einer Verwandten des bekannten Guerilla-Führers, geschwungen. Das Gerücht von der angeblichen Tat der Barbara Frietchie wurde kurz darauf Burnside's Truppen zugetragen, als diese am 10.9.1862 nach dem CS-Abzug Richtung Sharpsburg in Frederick eintrafen. Ein Familienmitglied drückte hierbei der Barbara Frietchie eine US-Fahne in die Hand, die diese beim Einzug der US-Truppen schwang. Die Erzählung von Barbara Frietchie wurde Whittier von der aus Frederick stammenden Dichterin Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth übermittelt. Whittier schrieb sein Poem im guten Glauben an die Richtigkeit des Berichts.
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Seilheimer, George O. The Historical Basis of Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie"; in: Battles & Leaders, a.a.O., vo. 2, S. 618-619
- Whittier, John Greenleaf: The Complete Works of John Greenleaf Whittier (University Edition), vol. III, S. 245 (mit dem Gedicht über Barbara Frietchie)
Whittle, Colonel:
CS-Col, 38th Virginia Infantry; im Mai 1862 während der Peninsular Campaign gehörte das Regiment zu Jubal *Early's Brigade (vgl. Early: War Memoirs, a.a.O., S. 67).
Whittlesey, Charles:
US-Col. 20th Ohio Infantry; Battle of Fort Donelson (Catton, Grant moves South, a.a.O, S. 162, 167). Die 20th Ohio Infantry gehörte vor Fort Donelson zur 2nd Brigade 3rd Division Lew Wallace (vgl. Grant, U. S.: The Opposing Forces at Fort Donelsen; in: B&L, vol. I, a.a.O., S. 429). Die Brigade war zur hinter dem rechten Flügel der US-Front eingesetzten 3rd Brigade Thayer detachiert, um den Durchbruch der CS-Verteidiger auf dem rechten Flügel zu verhindern (vgl. Grant, U. S.: The Opposing Forces at Fort Donelsen; in: B&L, vol. I, a.a.O., S. 429), um den Durchbruch der CS-Verteidiger auf dem rechten Flügel zu verhindern; hier trafen die Soldaten Whittlesey's auf die sich zurückziehenden Regimenter McClernand's und der Brigade McArthur (vgl. Catton, a.a.O., S. 165).
Urkunden/Literatur:
- Whittlesey, Charles: War Memoranda (Cleveland 1884)