Add to ORKGRodman (the youngest Wister brother) enlisted as a drummer boy when the Civil War first began, and he was placed in Captain Biddle’s company, the Home Guards of Germantown. He was transferred to the 8th regiment until he came down with typhoid fever in 1863 and was honorably discharged after his service (and sickness) at Gettysburg. --Kathryn Feldhttps://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/residents_civil_war/1011/thumbnail.jp
Bartmess has been left at camp by his company while he was on guard duty.Bartmess, Amanda1860s (1860...
A civic leader and soldier, Austin Wiswall was born on April 5, 1840, in Princeton, Illinois, to Noa...
Describes the Civil War career of John W. Rumpel, with extensive quotations from his diary and lette...
The third son, Langhorne, became the captain of Company B of the 150th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunt...
The oldest son, William Rotch Wister, did not immediately join the military when the Civil War began...
Another Wister to distinguish himself in the Civil War was the fifth son, Francis, who became the ca...
In Jones Wister’s Reminiscences, the fourth son of Sarah Logan Fisher Wister and William Wister rela...
In her memoirs, Ella Wister Haines writes that her uncle, John Wister—the second-born of the Wister ...
The Civil War diary of Capt. Charles Roush provides valuable insight into the life of a Union soldie...
James Adams Watson (1840-1905) served as 1st Lieutenant in Company A, 12th South Carolina Volunteers...
“Harvey Fisher of ‘Little Wakefield,’ the first cousin of the six Wister boys of ‘Belfield,’ was one...
From 1826 until her death in 1891, Sarah lived at--her grandchildren said “ruled”—“Belfield.” Her si...
Few, if any, Quaker families other than the Wisters had six brothers serving as Civil War soldiers. ...
After the Civil War, Mary Eustis went south to teach the newly-freed slaves how to read and write. I...
Abstract: One letter written by a Civil War Union soldier in Pilot Knob, Missouri, discussing milita...
Bartmess has been left at camp by his company while he was on guard duty.Bartmess, Amanda1860s (1860...
A civic leader and soldier, Austin Wiswall was born on April 5, 1840, in Princeton, Illinois, to Noa...
Describes the Civil War career of John W. Rumpel, with extensive quotations from his diary and lette...
The third son, Langhorne, became the captain of Company B of the 150th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunt...
The oldest son, William Rotch Wister, did not immediately join the military when the Civil War began...
Another Wister to distinguish himself in the Civil War was the fifth son, Francis, who became the ca...
In Jones Wister’s Reminiscences, the fourth son of Sarah Logan Fisher Wister and William Wister rela...
In her memoirs, Ella Wister Haines writes that her uncle, John Wister—the second-born of the Wister ...
The Civil War diary of Capt. Charles Roush provides valuable insight into the life of a Union soldie...
James Adams Watson (1840-1905) served as 1st Lieutenant in Company A, 12th South Carolina Volunteers...
“Harvey Fisher of ‘Little Wakefield,’ the first cousin of the six Wister boys of ‘Belfield,’ was one...
From 1826 until her death in 1891, Sarah lived at--her grandchildren said “ruled”—“Belfield.” Her si...
Few, if any, Quaker families other than the Wisters had six brothers serving as Civil War soldiers. ...
After the Civil War, Mary Eustis went south to teach the newly-freed slaves how to read and write. I...
Abstract: One letter written by a Civil War Union soldier in Pilot Knob, Missouri, discussing milita...
Bartmess has been left at camp by his company while he was on guard duty.Bartmess, Amanda1860s (1860...
A civic leader and soldier, Austin Wiswall was born on April 5, 1840, in Princeton, Illinois, to Noa...
Describes the Civil War career of John W. Rumpel, with extensive quotations from his diary and lette...