behind AotW

Corporal Charles M Smith, Company D, 16th New York Infantry was mortally wounded in the chest at Antietam and died at a field hospital on the Samuel Poffenberger farm nearby on 12 October 1862.

His photograph was once among many others pinned to the wall in the State Capitol in Albany, and is now in the collection of the NY State Military Museum, online through the Heritage New York portal.