and when the explosion occurred there was the 45th illinois led by its then-colonel jasper maltby. and there was a terrible incident in which he was struck by a timber and suffered such interim injuries -- internal injuries that eventually that would lead to his death. william maltby became the captain of an artillery battery that actually wound up on mustang island. it was concerned with local defense of the coastline in corpus christi, of course. so in november of 1863, there was, in fact, a very, very large union army that had taken over brownsville, and then that unit from that army moved up in november of 1863 to capture key points along the coast. they were headed to corpus christi, they were headed up toward indianola, and eventually they intended to get to galveston. so at fort sims -- now it's out there on the tip of mustang island -- so this large army then of union soldiers wound up actually capturing, taking fort sims and capturing the entire garrison including captain william maltby. what happened to william and the other prisoners were taken, and they were sent to new

jasper maltby also from the north, wound up in, of all places galena, illinois. and he had served in the mexican war, and he became a g

jasper maltby was a true hero. we have letters from generals grant, logan and other union generals expressing their great esteem and respect for this individual who during the battle of fort donaldson in 1863, he suffered from a tremendous injury and all too and eventually recovered from this and was able to serve during the siege of vicksburg. and during that siege before the city was eventually taken, there was an attempt to build a tunnel, if you will underneath the confederate fortification fort hill. and when the explosion occurred, there was the 45th illinois led by its then-colonel jasper maltby. and there was a terrible incident in which he was struck by a timber and suffered such interim injuries -- internal injuries that eventually that would lead to his death. william maltby became the captain of an artillery battery that actually wound up on mustang island. it was concerned with local defense of the coastline in corpus christi, of course. so in november of 1863, there was, in fact, a very very large uni

jasper edelman maltby was a true hero. we have letters from generals grant, logan and other union

regiment and having two brothers in texas firmly committed to another secession in the civil war, jasper maltby true hero. we have letters from general grant logan and other union generals expressing the great esteem and respect who during the battle of fort donaldson in 1863 suffered a tremendous injury, and he eventually account for this and was able to serve during the siege of vicksburg. during that siege before the city was eventually taken there was an attempt to build a tunnel if you will underneath confederate fortifications fort hill and when the explosion occurred in illinois led by colonel jesper maltby so there was a terrible incident where he was struck by at timber and suffered such internal injuries that eventually that would lead to his death. william maltby became the captain of artillery batteries that want up concerned with local defense of the coastline in color chris christie 7 november of 1863 there was the large union army that had taken over brownsville and units from that army moved up in november of 1863 to capture key points along the coast and even intended to get to