Col William H Blair (c. 1863)
6 January 2025
This serious face belongs to William H Blair, a lawyer from Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He was Captain of Company G, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry and led them with “great gallantry in storming and taking Antietam Bridge 17 September 1862 under Maj. Gen. Burnside.”
He was afterward Colonel of the 6-month 179th Pennsylvania Infantry regiment to mid-1863 and was brevetted Brigadier General of Volunteers by President Johnson in 1866.
This excellent photograph is in the Scott D Hann Collection. Thanks to Scott for sharing it to the General’s memorial page at Findagrave.
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