Image is a chest-up view of Henry F. Manges of Company E, 53^rd Pennsylvania Infantry. The bearded Manges wears a dark frock coat with shoulder straps. Between the third and fourth button of his coat he wears a metal 2^nd Corps badge with an enameled center.

Image has excellent clarity and good contrast.  Paper and mount have light to moderate surface dirt along the edges. Upper right corner of the paper has been torn and reglued but this does not affect the image.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for JOHN F. NICE…LEWISBURG, PA. At bottom in period pencil is “YOURS TRULY H. F. MANGES 1^ST LT. 53 P.V.I.”

Henry Franklin Manges (carried on some rolls as Mangus) was born August 30, 1839 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

Manges enlisted as a private in the 53^rd on September 7, 1861. He was promoted to sergeant the following October and to 1^st sergeant September 24, 1862. He was commissioned a 2^nd lieutenant in Company E on February 23, 1863 and rose to 1^st lieutenant on April 25, 1864. He was captured at Petersburg on June 16, 1864 and confined at Macon, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina. During his imprisonment he was promoted to captain on November 1, 1864 and was finally discharged on May 15, 1865.

After the war Manges was very successful in the lumber business. He died on May 7, 1902 and is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

The 53rd Pennsylvania was with the 2nd Corps of the Army of the Potomac through all its campaigns from the Seven Days Battles of 1862 to the surrender at Appomattox in 1865.  [ad]

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