behind AotW

This is Captain Stephen H. Andrews, Company A, 35th Massachusetts Infantry in a photograph now at the Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, hosted online by the Springfield-Greene County Library.

He’s a rare bird with combat experience in the Western Theater – with the 2nd Kansas Infantry at Wilson’s Creek, Missouri – before serving in the East. He led the 35th Massachusetts Infantry briefly after Colonel Wild was wounded on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and was himself wounded at Antietam on the 17th.

He survived the War and was in business in Lawrence, Kansas for many years afterward.