Did You Know....?
- Did you know that William J. Fisher lived 19 years, 6 months, and 4 days?
- Did you know that Lieutenant Fisher’s youngest brother, Robert Welles Fisher, was born three months after William was killed in the Wheatfield, at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863?
- Did you know Robert Welles was the nephew of President Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles?
- Did you know that Robert Welles’s middle name was Gideon?
- Did you know Fisher’s youngest brother,
Robert Welles, was named after Lieutenant
Welles, the officer who carried William’s
body from the field?
This is a picture of Lt. Robert G. Welles.
- Did you know William Fisher was related to Governor Ross by marriage? Isaac Montgomery Fisher, Jr., William’s brother, married Mary Green Ross, sister of Caleb William Ross, on May 30, 1875.
- Did you know that William Fisher met President and Mrs. Lincoln? In a letter to his father, William states, “I was at the President’s house yesterday and shook hands with him. I also saw Mrs. Lincoln who stood by the President.”
- Did you know that “In 2001, this unique collection of Fisher artifacts was purchased and donated to the Gettysburg National Military Park through the following donations: $30,000 from Friends of the National Parks at Gettysburg; $20,000 from Eastern National; and $20,000 from the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation.”
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