The Descendants of Hans Michael Wallick in the American Civil War: One Family's Journey Through The War of the Rebellion

Here is the story of the Wallick family's participation in the American Civil War. In 1732 the family patriarch, Hans Michael Wallick, came to America. His heirs fought in the American Revolution and migrated westward with the expansion of our nation. By 1861 the Wallick family was scattered across the Midwest, especially in Ohio and Indiana. Twenty-three soldiers, all descendants of Hans Michael, served in the Union Army between 1861 and 1865. This volume is an account of what the Wallick soldiers did during the War of the Rebellion. The Wallick men were in both the eastern and western theaters of the war and in some of its greatest battles: Gettysburg, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, to name just a few. This book identifies with whom they served, where they fought and where some of them, unfortunately, died and are buried. What is surprising is how the collective experiences of these Wallick soldiers tell the story of the American Civil War. From the war's beginning campaigns to the concluding Grand Review of the Armies, Wallick cousins were there, eyewitnesses to our nation's most singular event.