Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Crummer

Born in 1843, he served in the 45th Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. He is remembered not only as a veteran, but also as an author who later wrote about his wartime experience.

His best-known book, With Grant at Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg, was published in 1915. As the title suggests, it reflects on major campaigns associated with Ulysses S. Grant and helps preserve one soldier's view of those events.

Crummer died in 1920. The surviving records available online are brief, but they consistently connect him with both his military service and the memoir that carries his name into Civil War history.