Year: 2018

At the Sunken Road at Antietam on 17 September 1862, the green Regimental colors had fallen again, after the 8th color bearer was shot … … the Irish green lay trailing in the dust: Meagher cried out “Boys, raise the colors, and follow me !” Captain James McGee, of the Sixty-ninth, rushed forward, and crying,…

Brigadier General George Lucas Hartsuff commanded the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Division, First Army Corps at Antietam and was wounded there by a gunshot to his pelvis. The bullet was never found, but he returned to duty in May 1863 and was in administrative command positions to the end of the War. This CDV…

Private Hiram B. Howard of the 20th Massachusetts Infantry was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and again, mortally, at Gettysburg on 3 July 1863, dying on the 9th. This carte-de-visite (CDV) of him was sold by Heritage Auctions in 2016.

Private David Burr Vance was among the small group of soldiers who discovered Confederate General Lee’s Special Orders No. 191 in a field near Frederick, MD on 13 September 1862 and he was wounded by gunshot to the right hand and left knee 4 days later at Antietam. He was discharged for wounds in December,…

First Sergeant Martin Maginnis of Company F, First Minnesota Infantry was promoted to First Lieutenant, Company H on the Antietam battlefield on 17 September 1862. His photograph is from Wayne Jorgenson on his excellent First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry website After the War he moved to Helena, MT and was in mining, operated newspapers, and sold…