Welcome to David Jay Webber’s
Civil War Web Site
“THE UNION: IT MUST AND SHALL BE PRESERVED!”
Welcome to David Jay Webber’s
Civil War Web Site
“THE UNION: IT MUST AND SHALL BE PRESERVED!”
Dedicated to the memory of those men who fought and died for the preservation of the Union
in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, and in particular the following...
My five ancestors who served in the Union Army:
Morgan Denegar, George Ellis and William Henry Harrison Ellis (father and son),
and David Howard and Lafayette Howard (father and son).
My sixteen “uncles” (brothers of ancestors) who served in the Union Army:
Hiram W. Carpenter, Abraham Decatur +, (Samuel) Oliver Decatur, William Henry Decatur, (Philip) Horace Denegar,
George Ellis (Jr.), John Charles Ellis, Silas Howard, (Robert) James Mastin, Andrew Seymour Peterson Nichols, Oliver L.
Clark Nichols, William Avery Nichols, John William Pierce, Alfred Rorapaugh, Buell Rorapaugh, and James Ford Totman.
My wife’s ancestor who served in the Union Army:
Chauncey Brewer Crocker.
My wife’s three “uncles” (brothers of ancestors) who served in the Union Army:
Matthew Henry Quinn +, Judson A. Robinson +, and Jesse Wimble.
“I had a wife & 5 children & left them & volunteered
& went in the army to help save the country.”
|-- David Howard, Co. I, 150th N.Y. Infantry|
“I was one of the first men that pout down his
name in our Company fore to rein list.”
|-- Morgan Denegar, Co. B, 20th N.Y. State Militia|
My Family and My Wife’s Family
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Ancestors and “Uncles” of (David) Jay Webber Who Served in the Civil War
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Ancestor and “Uncles” of Carol Ruth Wimble Who Served in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Capsule Histories of the Civil War Regiments in which (David) Jay Webber’s Ancestors and “Uncles” Served
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Capsule Histories of the Civil War Regiments in which Carol Ruth Wimble’s Ancestor and “Uncles” Served
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Civil War Military Service of the “Uncles” of (David) Jay Webber
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Civil War Military Service of the “Uncles” of Carol Ruth Wimble
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
The obituary for Lorinda (Hawley) Rorapaugh (1802-1896)
(which refers to her meeting with President Abraham Lincoln)
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Newspaper article concerning the funeral of (Philip) Horace Denegar (1835-1894)
(Co. G, 128th New York Infantry)
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Letter from Lewis H. Bisbee published in the Lamoille Newsdealer (Hyde Park, Vermont) on March 26, 1863
Reporting, and commenting on, the death of Judson A. Robinson
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
George Parker Bixby (1831-1864)
(Co. I, 5th Vermont Infantry)
Concerning the Identification Disc He Wore During the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
History of the One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment, New York Volunteers (U. S. Infantry) in the Late Civil War
(David Henry Hanaburgh)
OFF-SITE LINK:
History of the One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment, New York Volunteers (U. S. Infantry) in the Late Civil War
(second site)
(David Henry Hanaburgh)
OFF-SITE LINK:
128th N.Y. Volunteer Infantry
OFF-SITE LINK:
U.S. Civil War’s 128th N.Y.S.V.I. Regiment Photo Albums
OFF-SITE LINK:
Diary of an Enlisted Man
(Lawrence Van Alstyne)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Diary of an Enlisted Man
(second site)
(Lawrence Van Alstyne)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Joseph W. Crowther and the 128th N.Y. Volunteers
OFF-SITE LINK:
The 157th New York Volunteer Infantry
OFF-SITE LINK:
A History of the Tenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers
(Edwin Mortimer Haynes)
Theodorus White (my great-great-great-great-grandfather)
and his third wife Anna, in an 1865 photograph.
Theodorus’s son-in-law John B. Towsand
(husband of Frances or “Fannie” White)
served in Co. D, 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Johnson and Phebe (Atwell) Robinson
(my wife’s great-great-great-grandparents).
Their son Judson A. Robinson died
while serving in the Union Army.
My Great-Great-Grandfather Morgan Denegar
and the 20th New York State Militia
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Morgan Denegar in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Letter Written by Morgan Denegar on February 12, 1864
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Letter from R. K. Tuthill, 20th N.Y.S.M., Dec. 26, 1861
OFF-SITE LINK:
Roster of the 80th New York Infantry (20th New York State Militia)
OFF-SITE LINK:
20th New York State Militia: Ulster Guard
OFF-SITE LINK:
80th Infantry Regiment - Civil War (Twentieth New York State Militia; Ulster Guard)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Reports of September 1862 on South Mountain and Antietam
(Lt. Col. Theodore B. Gates, 20th N.Y.S.M.)
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Report of Operations, August 1 - September 2, 1862
(Lt. Col. Theodore B. Gates, 20th N.Y.S.M.)
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Web Supplement to the Winter 2005 issue of Blue & Gray Magazine
(Alan T. Nolan and Marc Storch, “The Strange Story of the 6th Wisconsin’s Flag at Antietam”)
(Seward R. Osborne, “Chicanery–Subterfuge–Conspiracy: The 6th Wisconsin Flag Incident at Antietam Re-examined”)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Ambrose Noble Baldwin, 1838-1863
(Seward R. Osborne)
OFF-SITE LINK:
The “Ulster Guard” and the War of the Rebellion
(Col. Theodore B. Gates, 20th N.Y.S.M.)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Reminiscences of a Boy in the Civil War
(Enos B. Vail, 20th N.Y.S.M.)
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Personal Reminiscences of Gettysburg
(Capt. John D. S. Cook, 20th N.Y.S.M.)
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Ulster Guard at Gettysburg on the First Three Days of July, 1863
(Henry Abbey)
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
The 20th New York State Militia on the Third Day at Gettysburg
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Confusing Case of the 80th New York Volunteers - 20th N.Y.S.M.
OFF-SITE LINK:
Colonel Walter Alexander Van Rensselaer
OFF-SITE LINK:
Satterlee Hospital: A Civil War Hospital in West Philadelphia
20th New York State Militia at the Second Battle of Bull Run, August 30, 1862 (painting by Mark Maritato, used by permission)
Morgan Denegar, Co. B, 20th New York State Militia
(post-war images)
Morgan Denegar (post-war image)
My Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather George Ellis
and the 86th New York Infantry
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
George Ellis in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
86th Regiment, New York Infantry
OFF-SITE LINK:
Roster of the 86th New York Infantry
OFF-SITE LINK:
86th Infantry Regiment - Civil War (Steuben Rangers)
My Great-Great-Great-Grandfather William Henry Harrison Ellis
and the 109th New York Infantry
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
William Henry Harrison Ellis in the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
Roster of the 109th New York Infantry
OFF-SITE LINK:
109th Volunteer Infantry (New York)
OFF-SITE LINK:
History of the 109th Infantry Regiment, New York Volunteers
OFF-SITE LINK:
Beers Atlas Soldiers List: N.Y.V.I. 109th
OFF-SITE LINK:
109th Infantry Regiment - Civil War (Binghamton Regiment; Railway Brigade)
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Story of Aunt Becky’s Army-Life
(Sarah A. Palmer, a nurse with the 109th New York for 3 years)
William Henry Harrison Ellis
Co. K, 109th New York Infantry
(post-war images)
My Great-Great-Great-Grandfather David Howard,
the 150th New York Infantry, and the Fairfax Seminary Hospital
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
David Howard in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
150th Regiment, New York Infantry
OFF-SITE LINK:
Roster of the 150th New York Infantry
OFF-SITE LINK:
150th Infantry Regiment - Civil War (Dutchess County Regiment; Dutchess Legion)
OFF-SITE LINK:
As Seen From the Ranks
(Charles Edward Benton, Co. A, 150th New York Infantry)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Hospital Days
(Jane Stuart Woolsey, Superintendent of Nurses at Fairfax Seminary Hospital)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Hospital Days
(second site)
(Jane Stuart Woolsey, Superintendent of Nurses at Fairfax Seminary Hospital)
My Great-Great-Grandfather Lafayette Howard
and the 15th New York Engineers
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Lafayette Howard in the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
Roster of the 15th New York Engineers
OFF-SITE LINK:
15th Engineer Regiment - Civil War (New York Sappers and Miners)
Lafayette Howard
Co. E, 15th New York Engineers
(post-war image)
My Wife’s Great-Great-Grandfather Chauncey Brewer Crocker
and the 4th Vermont Infantry
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Chauncey Brewer Crocker in the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
4th Vermont Infantry
(Wikipedia)
OFF-SITE LINK:
4th Vermont Infantry
(Vermont in the Civil War)
OFF-SITE LINK:
The First Vermont Brigade at the Wilderness
(Eighteenth Vermont Regiment)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Sloan Army Hospital: A Place of Healing & Recovery
Chauncey Brewer Crocker, his wife Artelisa Adelia
(Robinson) Crocker, and their daughter Cora Ella
(my wife’s great-great-grandparents and great-
grandmother). This image was made just before
Chauncey entered the Union Army in 1863. Artelisa
had already lost a brother in the war, and now
her husband had been drafted and was about to
begin his military service. It does not surprise us
that this family would want to have such a picture.
(Chauncey was wounded in 1864 at the Battle of
Spotsylvania Court House, but he did survive.)
Chauncey Brewer Crocker
Co. C, 4th Vermont Infantry
(post-war image)
Chauncey Brewer Crocker
(post-war image)
Ancestors and “Uncles” of My Children’s In-Laws
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Ancestor and “Uncles” of John Raymond Wilde Who Served in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Capsule Histories of the Civil War Regiments in which John Raymond Wilde’s Ancestor and “Uncles” Served
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
George Clarke Ridler in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Civil War Military Service of the “Uncles” of John Raymond Wilde
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
“Uncles” of Philip Mark Leyrer Who Served in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Capsule Histories of the Civil War Regiments in which Philip Mark Leyrer’s “Uncles” Served
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Civil War Military Service of the “Uncles” of Philip Mark Leyrer
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Ancestor and “Uncles” of Beth Ellen Wessel Who Served in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Capsule Histories of the Civil War Regiments in which Beth Ellen Wessel’s Ancestor and “Uncles” Served
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
James Dunlap in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Civil War Correspondence from and to James Dunlap
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Civil War Military Service of the “Uncles” of Beth Ellen Wessel
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Ancestor and “Uncle” of James John Krause Who Served in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Capsule Histories of the Civil War Regiments in which James John Krause’s Ancestor and “Uncle” Served
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
August C. Sievert in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Civil War Military Service of the “Uncle” of James John Krause
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
“Uncles” of Paula Christine Johnson Who Served in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Capsule Histories of the Civil War Regiments in which Paula Christine Johnson’s “Uncles” Served
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Civil War Military Service of the “Uncles” of Paula Christine Johnson
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Ancestors and “Uncles” of Erik John Soule Who Served in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Capsule Histories of the Civil War Regiments in which Erik John Soule’s Ancestors and “Uncles” Served
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Ara James Soule in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Benjamin Franklin Shaw in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Civil War Military Service of the “Uncles” of Erik John Soule
OFF-SITE LINK:
History of the Services of the Third Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery, in the Civil War of the United States
OFF-SITE LINK:
Bugle Echoes: The Story of Illinois 47th
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Drums of the 47th
OFF-SITE LINK:
7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, “Iron Brigade”
Ara James Soule
(post-war image)
The Military Chaplaincy and Religious Life
During the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Some Reflections on the Military Chaplaincy
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
C. L. Clausen: Norwegian Synod Chaplain in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
Biography of the Rev. Thomas Edwin Vassar
Chaplain of the 150th New York Infantry
OFF-SITE LINK:
Chaplain’s Camp Chest
OFF-SITE LINK:
Chaplains in the Civil War
(simultaneously press "Ctrl" and "A" to read)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Army Chaplains & Spiritual Care of Soldiers During the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
Brief History of the
US Army Chaplain Corps:
The Civil War, 1861-1865
OFF-SITE LINK:
Religion in the Civil War: The Northern Perspective
(National Humanities Center)
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Civil War: Missing in Action
(The Heritage Foundation)
OFF-SITE LINK:
American Lutherans and the Civil War
(Mark Granquist)
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Lutheran Church and the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
Claus Lauritz Clausen
Chaplain of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry
OFF-SITE LINK:
Friedrich Wilhelm Richmann
Chaplain of the 58th Ohio Infantry
OFF-SITE LINK:
Lights and Shadows of Army Life
(Chaplain William W. Lyle, 11th Ohio Infantry)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Uncle John Vassar
(Chaplain Thomas E. Vassar, 150th New York Infantry)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Fr. Peter Whelan: Serving the Blue and the Gray
OFF-SITE LINK:
Father John B. Bannon, and St. Louis Irish Confederates
OFF-SITE LINK:
Father Abram J. Ryan
OFF-SITE LINK:
Religious Revival in Civil War Armies
OFF-SITE LINK:
Religion and Culture in Illinois and the North During the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
United States Christian Commission
OFF-SITE LINK:
United States Sanitary Commission
Roman Catholic Mass at Ft. Corcoran, D.C., 1861
The Battle of Gettysburg
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
The 150th New York at the Battle of Gettysburg
OFF-SITE LINK:
The First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg
(Chapman Biddle)
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Charge at Gettysburg
(Theodore Roosevelt)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
(Abner Doubleday)
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Battle of Gettysburg & the American Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Battle of Gettysburg
OFF-SITE LINK:
Battle of Gettysburg Buff
OFF-SITE LINK:
Gettysburg Discussion Group
OFF-SITE LINK:
Notes on the Rebel Invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania and the Battle of Gettysburg
(1864 original edition)
(Michael Jacobs)
Midday Fighting at Seminary Ridge in Gettysburg, July 1, 1863
(Dale Gallon)
New York and the Civil War
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New York Civil War Units
(New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
OFF-SITE LINK:
New York in the War of the Rebellion
(Frederick Phisterer)
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Hudson River Valley in the Civil War
(Hudson River Valley Institute)
Civil War Veterans in Tivoli, New York, in 1908:
Top row: James Outwater, – Palmetier, Emory Cole, Andrew Rockefeller;
Bottom row: George Minkler, George Cole, Wallace Moore, Henry Miller, Montgomery Marshall
Important People in the Civil War
ON-SITE RESOURCE:
“I Do Love Jesus”: The Final Evangelical Faith of Abraham Lincoln [PDF]
OFF-SITE LINK:
Abraham Lincoln Research Site
OFF-SITE LINK:
Mr. Lincoln and Freedom
OFF-SITE LINK:
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
OFF-SITE LINK:
Abraham Lincoln Institute: Abraham Lincoln’s Life & Politics
OFF-SITE LINK:
Ulysses S. Grant Homepage
OFF-SITE LINK:
General Meade Society
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Longstreet Society
U. S. Grant and His Generals
Miscellaneous Subjects Pertaining to the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
Scottsdale Civil War Round Table
OFF-SITE LINK:
Vermont in the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
Pennsylvania in the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
Engineers in the Union Army
OFF-SITE LINK:
The U.S. Army Veteran Reserve Corps, 1863-1866
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Case Against Secession
(The Claremont Institute)
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Siege of Petersburg
OFF-SITE LINK:
Ukrainians in the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
Civil War Medical Terminology
Doubleday’s Third Division of the First Corps, Army of the Potomac, crossing the Potomac River on June 7, 1863.
The 20th N.Y.S.M. belonged to the First Brigade of this Division.
(painting by David G. Blythe)
Comprehensive or General Resources on the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
The United States Civil War Center
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Civil War Archive
OFF-SITE LINK:
Home of the American Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Civil War Gazette
OFF-SITE LINK:
CivilWar.com
OFF-SITE LINK:
American Civil War: Your History Site on the Web
OFF-SITE LINK:
Teacher Oz’s Kingdom of History: The Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
Behind the Stonewall
(360o Panoramic Images from Civil War Battlefields)
OFF-SITE LINK:
American Civil War Anecdotes, Incidents, Articles, and Books
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Civil War: Soldiers & Sailors Database
OFF-SITE LINK:
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Photographic History of the Civil War
OFF-SITE LINK:
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records
of the Union and Confederate Armies
OFF-SITE LINK:
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records
of the Union and Confederate Armies
(second site)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Bivouac Banner
OFF-SITE LINK:
Joel Craig’s Bivouac
OFF-SITE LINK:
U.S.A. Civil War Web Site
OFF-SITE LINK:
Bits of Blue and Gray
OFF-SITE LINK:
Civil War Interactive & Blue Gray Daily
OFF-SITE LINK:
The Civil War Monitor
OFF-SITE LINK:
Civil War Talk Radio
OFF-SITE LINK:
Impediments of War: The Civil War Talk Radio Companion
OFF-SITE LINK:
Civil War Studies
(Smithsonian Associates)
OFF-SITE LINK:
Daily Chronicles of the American Civil War
A Brave and Loyal Civil War Cat, with His Companion
(an officer of the 6th Pa. Heavy Artillery)
This panorama shows the area around the campus of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The 20th New York State Militia (Morgan Denegar’s regiment) was engaged here on July 1, 1863.
My son and I visited this place in June 2004 and then again in June 2013.
This panorama shows the area around the Trostle Farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The 150th New York Infantry (David Howard’s regiment) was engaged here on July 2, 1863.
My son and I visited this place in June 2004 and then again in June 2013.
This panorama shows the area around Culp’s Hill in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The 150th New York Infantry (David Howard’s regiment) was engaged here on July 3, 1863.
My son and I visited this place in June 2004 and then again in June 2013.
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AUG. 12, 2004
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