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 Theodore Joseph Vanneman

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Theodore Joseph Vanneman

Birth
Sharptown, Salem County, New Jersey, USA
Death
7 May 1902 (aged 70)
Port Deposit, Cecil County, Maryland, USA
Burial
Woodlawn, Cecil County, Maryland, USA
Memorial ID
22254220 View Source

1st Lt. Theodore J. Vanneman served and helped organize Snow's Battery B 1st MD Light Artillery enlisted August 31, 1861 and serving until Decemebr 23, 1862. He was wounded at the Seven Days before RIchmond 1 July 1862 with injuries to both legs (shins) and his chest. After recovering he returned to the battlefield and led the Battery at Antietam Septemebr 17, 1862, in the absence of a sickly Captain Alonzo Snow. He was later a member of the Antietam Battlefield Commission which patterned the Maryland Monument there after the Temple of Fame.

1st Lt. Theodore J. Vanneman served and helped organize Snow's Battery B 1st MD Light Artillery enlisted August 31, 1861 and serving until Decemebr 23, 1862. He was wounded at the Seven Days before RIchmond 1 July 1862 with injuries to both legs (shins) and his chest. After recovering he returned to the battlefield and led the Battery at Antietam Septemebr 17, 1862, in the absence of a sickly Captain Alonzo Snow. He was later a member of the Antietam Battlefield Commission which patterned the Maryland Monument there after the Temple of Fame.


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