Wallick Soldiers of the American Civil War

About This Chronicle

This website is dedicated to the Wallick men who served their country during the American Civil War. The information in this chronicle of soldiers was compiled using a variety of historical and contemporary sources. The National Park Service has an exhaustive index of over 6.3 million names in their Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System. Fifty Wallicks are included in that database. The biographies presented here will concentrate on only twenty-three soldiers who are definitely descendants of Hans Michael Walck/Wallick, a German immigrant who came to America in 1732. All of these soldiers served in the Union Army. To date, there are no Wallicks from this family known to have served in the Confederate Army.

A search has been made for each soldier and his regiment using the Civil War collection of compiled service records from the National Archives and Dyer's Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Histories that were written for state and local governments have also been examined. Some of these histories were mandated by state legislatures to be written soon after the war to insure their accuracy. Unfortunately, that goal was not always achieved. The best and most authoritative accounts written about the military units of Wallick soldiers have been written by contemporary authors and scholars. By employing all of these resources a fairly accurate account can be told of the Wallick family's participation in the Civil War.

We are fortunate to have two diaries that survived the war. We have the original diary written by Captain William Wallick of Peru, Indiana, and a partial transcript of a diary written by his brother, Corporal Charles F. Wallick.