Ernst von Vegesack
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Ernst Mathias Peter von Vegesack was a Swedish Army officer and volunteer in the Union Army during American Civil War and later on was a member of the parliament of Sweden. After his return to Sweden,
Portrait by August Roesler, c. 1864–75
Ernst von Vegesack in 1863, as colonel of the United Turner Regiment.
Vegesack as a Swedish colonel
Daniel Butterfield
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Daniel Adams Butterfield was a New York businessman, a Union general in the U.S. Civil War, and Assistant Treasurer of the United States.
Ernst von Vegesack
…artillery bombardment of Newport News. In 1862 he resigned, but then he joined Major General George B. McClellan in his siege of Yorktown. As an ADC to Butterfield he took part in the battles of Hanover Court House, of Seven Pines and of Fair Oaks. He was at the Battle of Mechanicsville, Gaines's Mill, Savage's…
Daniel Butterfield
Union General Daniel Butterfield