Research Arsenal Spotlight 29: Albert Jenkins Barnard 116th New York Infantry
Albert Jenkins Barnard was born in 1841 to Albert Barnard and Elizabeth Atwater (Jenkins) Barnard of Buffalo, New York. His father died in 1849, and he had one brother,…
Research Arsenal Spotlight 28: Jacob Claar 138th Pennsylvania Infantry
Jacob Claar was born June 19, 1865 to Simon Walter Claar and Rachel Alice (Croyle) Claar. His father, Simon, died in 1849 leaving Rachel with 8 children to care for. In 1859,…
Research Arsenal Spotlight 27: William Fish 11th New Hampshire Infantry
William Fish enlisted in Company C of the 11th New Hampshire Infantry at the age of nineteen. He was the son of John Blaney Fish and Mary Holmes (Barrett) Fish. William Fish…
Research Arsenal Spotlight 26: David Patten 35th Illinois Infantry
David Patten was born in 1838 and lived in Illinois. When war broke out, he enlisted in G.A. Smith’s Independent Regiment, which was later designated as the 35th Illinois I…
Research Arsenal Spotlight 25: David Poak 30th Illinois Infantry
David Watson Poak was born in 1842 in Mt. Jackson Pennsylvania to John Poak and Sarah (Duff) Poak. The twelve letters in our Research Arsenal collection were written to his…
Research Arsenal Spotlight 24: Silas Leach 52nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regimental Band
Silas Leach was born in Pennsylvania in 1836 to Isaiah Leach and Eliza (Kelly) Leach. Isaiah Leach worked as a school teacher and music teacher but passed away when Silas was…
Research Arsenal Spotlight 23: Tip Wilson of the 5th Tennessee Infantry
William Henry Harrison “Tip” Wilson was born in 1840 to Ann Adeline (Neblett) Wilson and Joseph Hannibal Bonaparte Wilson of Paris, Tennessee. He was named after politician Wi…
Research Arsenal Spotlight 22: William Lewis Savage of the 10th Connecticut Infantry
William Lewis Savage was born in 1842 to Selah Savage and Sarah M. (Meade) Savage of Greenwich, Connecticut. On October 2, 1861 he enlisted as a sergeant in Company “I” of the…
Research Arsenal Spotlight 21: Richard Ransom and the Chicago Mercantile Battery Light Artillery
Richard “Dick” Ransom was born in 1842 to Daniel Ransom and Lucy Edson (Lake) Ransom of Woodstock, Vermont. By the 1860s, Richard Ransom was living in Chicago working as a pri…
Research Arsenal Spotlight 20: Biddle Boggs, Lt. on Gen. John C. Frémont’s Staff
Biddle Boggs was a rather unique character in history, serving in both the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. He was born in 1822 to Andrew Boggs and Sarah Talman…
