Year: 2019

This notice in the Greenwood (SC) Index-Journal of 12 October 1927 describes the death of 83 year old William Thomas Hartness, late of the 17th South Carolina Infantry. He had enlisted at age 18 in April 1862, was wounded at Turner’s Gap on South Mountain in September 1862 and again at Fort Stedman near Petersburg,…

The Confederate Rolls of South Carolina were compiled over about 35 years after the war by the several South Carolina Adjutants General and the Historians of the Confederate Records. Also known as the Memory Rolls, these were gathered from veterans as well as official documents. There are gaps, omissions, and errors, but there are also…

Lieutenant Joseph H. McDowell of Company K, 5th South Carolina Infantry probably commanded his Company as senior officer present on the Maryland Campaign of 1862. His photographs here are from Landrum’s History of Spartanburg County (1900), online from the Hathi Trust.

Here’s the result of an unusual projectile wound. Irish-born Private William Ford, Co. K, 8th Ohio Infantry was wounded in the assault on the Sunken Road/Bloody Lane at Antietam on 17 September 1862 “by a ramrod which transfixed the right thigh in the upper third.” There’s much more about him on his AotW page. _______…

Citadel graduate Captain Thomas Chisholm Beckham of Company B, 5th South Carolina Infantry commanded his regiment on the Maryland Campaign because he was the senior officer present for duty. He was their Major when they were surrendered at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865. Seen here is the a Palmetto Flag – Big…

Lieutenant William Porcher DuBose was the Adjutant of the Holcombe Legion Infantry Battalion in Maryland in 1862. Just before midnight on 14 September Colonel Stevens sent DuBose back toward the crest of South Mountain at Turner’s Gap to … ascertain whether the enemy still occupied it or had retired … Advancing to the battle-ground, or…