This email message was sent to me by Leon Basile:
"...a very interesting article was published in American Heritage, Vol. XIV (14), No. 2 (Feb. 1963), pages 64-78: "In search of my son" by S.K. Wightman. The article was introduced by the then Senior Editor of American Heritage, Bruce Catton. The actual article was an original document, written by Atty. Stillman King Wightman (1803-1899) on March 4, 1865, describing his odyssey to locate and bring his deceased son, Sgt. Major Edward K. Wightman, 3rd New York Volunteers, back to Cromwell, Conn. Sgt. Maj. E.K. Wightman had been killed in action on Jan. 15, 1865, at Fort Fisher, N.C. The article includes photographic portraits of Edward K. and Stillman K. Wightman, but due to copyright requirements, I am not able to add the portraits at findagrave."
The Historian of the 169th N.Y. (Civil War) noted that this article can be found as follows:
American Heritage Civil War Chronicles, Fall 1993, pp. 41-57.
Philip Fazzini provided the following info:
Service record from New York Adjutant Report on 3rd NY Infantry can be found online at http://www.familysearch.org
The American Heritage account can be read online at http://www.americanheritage.com/content/search-my-son
"...a very interesting article was published in American Heritage, Vol. XIV (14), No. 2 (Feb. 1963), pages 64-78: "In search of my son" by S.K. Wightman. The article was introduced by the then Senior Editor of American Heritage, Bruce Catton. The actual article was an original document, written by Atty. Stillman King Wightman (1803-1899) on March 4, 1865, describing his odyssey to locate and bring his deceased son, Sgt. Major Edward K. Wightman, 3rd New York Volunteers, back to Cromwell, Conn. Sgt. Maj. E.K. Wightman had been killed in action on Jan. 15, 1865, at Fort Fisher, N.C. The article includes photographic portraits of Edward K. and Stillman K. Wightman, but due to copyright requirements, I am not able to add the portraits at findagrave."
The Historian of the 169th N.Y. (Civil War) noted that this article can be found as follows:
American Heritage Civil War Chronicles, Fall 1993, pp. 41-57.
Philip Fazzini provided the following info:
Service record from New York Adjutant Report on 3rd NY Infantry can be found online at http://www.familysearch.org
The American Heritage account can be read online at http://www.americanheritage.com/content/search-my-son
This email message was sent to me by Leon Basile:
"...a very interesting article was published in American Heritage, Vol. XIV (14), No. 2 (Feb. 1963), pages 64-78: "In search of my son" by S.K. Wightman. The article was introduced by the then Senior Editor of American Heritage, Bruce Catton. The actual article was an original document, written by Atty. Stillman King Wightman (1803-1899) on March 4, 1865, describing his odyssey to locate and bring his deceased son, Sgt. Major Edward K. Wightman, 3rd New York Volunteers, back to Cromwell, Conn. Sgt. Maj. E.K. Wightman had been killed in action on Jan. 15, 1865, at Fort Fisher, N.C. The article includes photographic portraits of Edward K. and Stillman K. Wightman, but due to copyright requirements, I am not able to add the portraits at findagrave."
The Historian of the 169th N.Y. (Civil War) noted that this article can be found as follows:
American Heritage Civil War Chronicles, Fall 1993, pp. 41-57.
Philip Fazzini provided the following info:
Service record from New York Adjutant Report on 3rd NY Infantry can be found online at http://www.familysearch.org
The American Heritage account can be read online at http://www.americanheritage.com/content/search-my-son
"...a very interesting article was published in American Heritage, Vol. XIV (14), No. 2 (Feb. 1963), pages 64-78: "In search of my son" by S.K. Wightman. The article was introduced by the then Senior Editor of American Heritage, Bruce Catton. The actual article was an original document, written by Atty. Stillman King Wightman (1803-1899) on March 4, 1865, describing his odyssey to locate and bring his deceased son, Sgt. Major Edward K. Wightman, 3rd New York Volunteers, back to Cromwell, Conn. Sgt. Maj. E.K. Wightman had been killed in action on Jan. 15, 1865, at Fort Fisher, N.C. The article includes photographic portraits of Edward K. and Stillman K. Wightman, but due to copyright requirements, I am not able to add the portraits at findagrave."
The Historian of the 169th N.Y. (Civil War) noted that this article can be found as follows:
American Heritage Civil War Chronicles, Fall 1993, pp. 41-57.
Philip Fazzini provided the following info:
Service record from New York Adjutant Report on 3rd NY Infantry can be found online at http://www.familysearch.org
The American Heritage account can be read online at http://www.americanheritage.com/content/search-my-son
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killed in battle at Fort Fisher, N.C., AE 29 yrs
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