PBA Galleries

Includes:

• Maj. William D. Dickey, Medal of Honor Winner, at Second Battle of Petersburg, Virginia, 1864, refused to leave the field, remaining in command after being wounded by a piece of shell, and led his command in the assault on the enemy's works on the following day.
• Sgt. Thomas W. Bradley,  received the Medal of Honor for actions on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville, later  a United States Representative from New York..
• William W. Belknap, Major General in the Civil War, government administrator in Iowa, and United States Secretary of War under U.S. Grant..
• William S. Struker, served from 1861-1865, rising to major.
•  Colonel James Jourdan, One hundred and fifty-eighth New York Infantry,
• Lewis Benedict, Union Brevet Brigadier Genera served as Colonel and commander of the 162nd New York Volunteer Infantry, captured at Williamsburg, spent months in various Confederate prisons, led attack on Port Hudson, and was killed at Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 1864.
• Daniel D. Bidwell,  civic leader in Buffalo, New York, enlisted early in the war,  appointed colonel of a regiment of infantry. Promoted to general in command of a brigade in early 1864, leading it until he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Cedar Creek.
• Thomas J. Oakley, abolitionist leader,  United States  Representative and New York State Attorney General.
• Matthew Henry Avery, brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for “gallantry in action at Sailor’s Creek, Va., and for faithful and meritorious services”.
• Edwin Croswell, American journalist and politician, head of anti-Lincoln faction in New York.
• Charles Henry Tompkins, Brigadier General of volunteers during the American Civil War. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for valor in action on June 1, 1861 in the Battle of Fairfax Court House.
• Christopher Morgan, U.S  Representative from New York, and Secretary of State of New York.
• John Converse Starkweather, Union general, wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga.
• Elwell Stephen Otis, Union general who later served in the Philippines late in the Spanish-American War and during the Philippine-American War.