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Sergeant William T. Biedler
Sergeant
William T. Biedler, 16 years old, of Company C, Mosby's Virginia Cavalry
Regiment is pictured above. Many
of Mosby’s soldiers were too young to join the regular army. Mosby favored these young troopers. “They
haven’t sense enough to know danger when they see it, and will fight anything I
tell them to,” he once said.
Charles Biedler was born November 9, 1847, and in his
teens served with Mosby's Rangers. At one time, while guarding a squad of
Federal prisoners in a barn, he, singlehandedly, foiled their attempted escape.
One of the prisoners, whose life Biedler spared, presented his youthful captor
with a golden trinket as a mark of gratitude.
Biedlar had this gift fashioned into his wife's wedding ring. Charles E.
Biedler died in Baltimore, Md., on October 11, 1926.
Women Doctors in the Civil War
In both the North and the South, thousands of women served as nurses to help wounded and suffering soldiers and civilians. A few women served as doctors, a remarkable feat in an era when sex discrimination prevented women from pursuing medical education, and those few who did were often obstructed by their male colleagues at every turn.
In both the North and the South, thousands of women served as nurses to help wounded and suffering soldiers and civilians. A few women served as doctors, a remarkable feat in an era when sex discrimination prevented women from pursuing medical education, and those few who did were often obstructed by their male colleagues at every turn.
The 1865 Fall of Richmond in Pictures
The last death agonies of
the Confederacy captured in pictures.
