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Vogdes, Israel 1816-1889

Military officer; born in Willistown, Pa., Aug. 4, 1816; graduated at West Point in 1837, where he remained two years assistant Professor of Mathematics. He entered the artillery, and served in the Seminole War. In May, 1861, he was made major. He gallantly defended Fort Pickens (q. v.) from February to October, 1861, when he was made prisoner in the night attack on Santa Rosa Island. He was active in the operations on Folly and Morris islands against forts Wagner and Sumter, and commanded the defences of Norfolk and Portsmouth in 1864-65. In April, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general, United States army, and in 1881 was retired. He died in New York, Dec. 7, 1889.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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