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Private William Kidd, Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry suffered grievous wounds to his face at Sharpsburg, but survived to go home to his family. Here he is with his daughter Addie Jane. You can see the face covering his wife made to hide the damage. The photograph kindly provided by his great-great-grandson Marshall Miller. The clipping is from the Muscatine (IA) Weekly Journal of 21 November 1862, from Laura Elliott.