Jacob Ziegler
Jacob Ziegler served as Captain of Company H, 13th Pennsylvania Volunteers, one of the state’s three-months regiments raised after the fall of Fort Sumter in 1861. He was elected captain upon the promotion of Captain Purviance to lieutenant colonel, but resigned his commission on May 11, 1861, before the regiment saw major combat. Little else […]
Samuel C. McIlvain
John M. Schofield
John M. Schofield was a Union major general who commanded the Army of the Ohio during the Atlanta Campaign and fought at the Battle of Franklin and the Battle of Nashville in 1864, later assisting Sherman’s operations in the Carolinas. Earlier in the war he earned the Medal of Honor for gallantry at Wilson’s Creek. […]