Comments on: John Westbrook at Antietam

By: Wim van de Giesen

Wim van de Giesen — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:48:06 +0000

The “almost impossible” signatures at the bottom of the Certificate of disabilaty for discharge of John Westbrook are indeed those of hospital director Dr Bernard A. Vanderkieft. There is absolutely no doubt about it, as far as I am concerned. Mr. Mike Fitzpatrick wrote a very interesting article about Dr Vanderkieft:”A Dutch Doctor in the Union Army” in Military Images of March/April 2001 with pictures of this very capable and appreciated doctor.

By: John Westbrook

John Westbrook — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:34:35 +0000

My name is also John Westbrook, I was also born on 27 September, I also have light hair and eyes and sport a beard very close to the same style, had broken my right leg but did not lose it, enlisted in the Marines in the month of October like John and looked very close to his picture at that age when I was younger. Very interesting read I must say.

By: Eric Schwarz

Eric Schwarz — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:02:28 +0000

One additonal comment that I can confirm is not true. Henry Tuthills sisters were, Emiline (Never Married), Rachel Anne, (Never Married), Laura (Married David Bratton), and Sarah Jane (died in 1864 developmentally handicapped). So there was no marriage of Henrys sister by Lewis Skinner as your research suggests. The letter collection can be viewed in East Otto New York. We donated a copy of the published collection to their historical society. East Otto is the town of the Tuthills New York state homestead. I also have a copy of the collection at the Blue Pike Lakehouse in Ashtabula Ohio. This is a vacation rental and my renters love the letters.

By: Eric Schwarz

Eric Schwarz — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:53:35 +0000

This story came to me as I searched for additional information on my Great Great Great…Uncle Henry G. Tuthill.

I have letters from him from Antietam, Gettysburg and other active service encounters of Company A, and the 104th as he became Colonol of the regiment. I also have letters (over 800) from his sisters and brother dating from 1848 to 1890 and they chronicle his activies of becoming politically active, leaving his occupation to join the US Army and muster Co. A in Nunda NY. My letters are available for research, they are catalogued and they have been typed by my Aunt and Uncle and placed in a very thorough and complete geneological history of Henrys family. This is a spectacular first hand experience of the culmination of tension to the bittersweet post era of their the Northern victory from a Civil War family, it makes Cold Mountain (which I enjoyed) look like a short story. You should also search Charles Barber and you will find a book on Amazon that his family published. It to is a collection of letters from a private in Co. A. That book is really awesome. What a blessed man Charles Barber was! The title is “The Civil War Letters of Charles Barber” By Gary E. Swinson & Raymond G. Barber

By: K. Lufkin

K. Lufkin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:36:33 +0000

This site is a beautiful gift to all his descendants who will follow with pride in their ancestor and gratitude to your efforts to preserve the memory of a Patriot.

Thank you

By: Bob Zeller

Bob Zeller — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:37:20 +0000

Thanks as well for the link to CCWP. BZ

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:36:34 +0000

Thanks for coming by, Bob. Your Smoketown Hospital views are fantastic. There’s much online potential for more work on that hospital’s history.

By: Bob Zeller

Bob Zeller — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:27:27 +0000

I enjoyed the accounts of Smoketown Hospital. There are several other images of the hospital that weren’t in my book.

By: Larry Freiheit

Larry Freiheit — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:10:39 +0000

Brian,

Thanks for this excellent piece and great research on this veteran.

Larry

By: Marianne Tierney

Marianne Tierney — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:30:44 +0000

Thank you so much for researching and putting this together which honors my great-great grandfather’s service and his life. This has been a journey for our family and I appreciate that you have been a part of our quest. Thanks you for your dedication in this website.