| Colonel Henry Wilson, founder of the 22nd Mass. Col. Wilson was a U. S. Senator at the time. He later became President Grant's Vice President after the war.
Thanks to "Bob in Michigan" for supplying this picture. |
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"Battle of Gaines Mill, Valley of the Chickhominy, Virginia, July 27, 1862" Artwork by Prince de Joinville
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| Colonel Nelson Appleton Miles, 61st New York formerly of Company E, 22nd Massachusetts |
| Baseball game between Union prisoners at Salisbury, North Corolina, 1863. Lithograph of a drawing by Major Otto Boetticher. |
| Colonel Jesse Gove of the 22nd Mass. Col. Gove assumed command after Col. Wilson left. He was killed in action at Gaines Mill, July 27, 1862. The Confederate Army took his body; burial place unknown. |
| Colonel William S. Tilton of the 22nd Mass. donated by Andrea Tilton Hyde, a relative of his. She is searching for other relatives. Please e-mail the 22nd at 22mass@geocities.com or use one of the e-mail links on this site if you can help her out.
| Charles E. Griswold, the first Lieutenent Colonel of the 22nd. Griswold signed it himself.
The photographer, Whipple, was a prominant photographer at the time of the war. |
| Corporal Alcot Hardon of Company G, 22nd Mass. |
| Patrick J. Donlan, enlisted with the 22nd Mass. and transferred to the 32nd Mass. Age 91 |
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