Portrait Gallery

In Memory of The Garrison Defending Fort Sumter

“The garrison consisted of nine commissioned officers, sixty-eight non-commissioned officers and privates, eight musicians, and forty-three non-combatant workmen, to whom, during the last ten days, the besiegers had refused permission to depart, in order that they might help consume Anderson's small stock of provisions, and thus hasten the process of reducing the fort by starvation.” — John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, 1881, page 63.

Erected by the United States 1932 In memory of the Garrison Defending Fort Sumter during the bombardment April 12-14, 1861

Major Robert Anderson First U.S. Artillery Commanding



Corps of Engineers Captain John G. Foster 1st Lieut. George W. Snyder 2nd Lieut. Richard K. Meade

Medical Department Asst. Surg. Samuel W. Crawford

1st U.S. Artillery Captain Abner Doubleday 1st Lieut. Jefferson C. Davis 1st Lieut. Truman Seymour 2nd Lieut. Norman J. Hall Ordnance Sgt. James Kearney Q.M. Sgt. Willaim H. Hamner Band Sgt. James E. Galway Corp. Andrew Smith Pvt. Patrick Murphy Pvt. Tedeschi Onoratto Pvt. Peter Rice Pvt. Henry Schmidt Pvt. John Urquhart Pvt. Andrew Wickstrom Company E 1st Sgt. Eugene Scheibner Sgt. Thomas Kirnan Sgt. William A. Harn Sgt. James Chester Corp. Owen McGuire Corp. Francis J. Oakes Corp. Charles Bringhurst Corp. Henry Ellerbrook Musician Charles Hall Artificer Philip Andermann Artificer John Emil Noack Privates Cornelius Baker Thomas Carroll Patrick Clancy John Davis James Digdam George Fielding Edward Gallway James Gibbons James Hays Daniel Hough John Irwin James McDonald Samuel Miller John Newport George Pinchard Frank Rivers Lewis Schroeder Carl A. Sellmann John Thompson Charles H. Tozer William Witzmann Company H 1st Sgt. John Renehan Sgt. James McMahon Sgt. John Carmody Sgt. John Otto Corp. Christopher Costolan Musician Robert Foster Artificer Henry Strandt Privates Edward Brady Barney Cain John Doran Dennis Johnson John Kehoe John Klein John Lanagan John Laroche Frederick Lintner John McGill Frederick Meier James Moore William Morter Patrick Neilan John Nixon Michael O'Donald Robert Roe William Walker Joseph Wall Edward Walsh Henry R. Walter Herman Will Thomas Wishnouski Caspar Wutterpel

Hospital Steward Edward Weitfieldt

Matron Ann Amella Weitfieldt

In Memory of the Garrison Defending Fort Sumter During the Bombardment April 12-14, 1861, Monument at Fort Sumter. View this monument at HMdb, Location.

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