recently looking at this blog-in regard to Fredericksburg cemetery photograph-my attention was caught by the inscription of the grave at the left-the unknwn Captain of the 49th NYI
http://john-banks.blogspot.com/2014/04/history-revealed-sgt-harvey-tuckers.html
something clicked in my head-it seemed familier -it was-see page 88 of 1996 SUVCW Yearbook see Howard Norris entry:
https://books.google.com/books?id=G... William Wiggins of the 49th New York&f=false
A check of VA Administration
shows a "T.D. Wiggins Lt B 64th NY Inf dod 5/12/1864 Site 589"
http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/index.html
In fact this is the Fredericksburg National cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/f...Sst=48&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=12607016&df=all&
Only one Wiggins served in the 49th NY Inf {p.1368} Captain W.W. Wiggins
http://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/rosters/Infantry/49th_Infantry_CW_Roster.pdf
Wiggins has a cenopath memorial in New York state
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/f...st=36&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=110231056&df=all&
as paul harevy said..That the rest of the story"
SIC TRANSIT Glory
http://john-banks.blogspot.com/2014/04/history-revealed-sgt-harvey-tuckers.html
something clicked in my head-it seemed familier -it was-see page 88 of 1996 SUVCW Yearbook see Howard Norris entry:
https://books.google.com/books?id=G... William Wiggins of the 49th New York&f=false
A check of VA Administration
shows a "T.D. Wiggins Lt B 64th NY Inf dod 5/12/1864 Site 589"
http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/index.html
In fact this is the Fredericksburg National cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/f...Sst=48&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=12607016&df=all&
Only one Wiggins served in the 49th NY Inf {p.1368} Captain W.W. Wiggins
http://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/rosters/Infantry/49th_Infantry_CW_Roster.pdf
Wiggins has a cenopath memorial in New York state
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/f...st=36&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=110231056&df=all&
as paul harevy said..That the rest of the story"
SIC TRANSIT Glory