Year: 2020

[top col. 1&2, middle col. 1&2, bottom col. 1] Clippings from the Fox Lake (WI) Gazette of 2 October 1862 listing Wisconsin soldiers in Maryland hospitals, those recently died in Washington, DC, and those buried near the Maryland battlefields. Last listed among the hospitalized in column 1 was 20 year old Corporal Arthur D. Hamilton…

A photograph at the Library of Congress of Colonel William H. Pettes. He commanded the 50th New York Engineers. Although nominally attached to the Army of the Potomac, they were not in the field on the Maryland Campaign, but were detailed to Washington, DC on 7 September 1862.

This fine Brady portrait photograph of the General and his wife is in the Library of Congress. A career US Army officer, West Point ’39, Brigadier General James B Ricketts commanded the 2nd Division in the First Army Corps at Antietam. He was injured there when his horse fell on him, but remained with his…

Brigadier General Fitzhugh Lee (nephew of R.E. Lee) commanded a Brigade of Cavalry on the 1862 Maryland Campaign. This carte-de-visite of him is in the collection of the Library of Congress.

Brigadier General Albion P Howe was in command of a Brigade in the Fourth Army Corps in Maryland in 1862. He’s seen toward the left, hand on sword hilt, in this photograph of the members of the Military Commission to Try the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators in May 1865. The voting members of the Commission were…

Captain Merrill T Castleberry, 21st Georgia Infantry was terribly wounded at Sharpsburg, by a gunshot that entered his mouth and went out the back of his head. He was not expected to survive, but did. His beautiful 1890 stone, pictured here, is notable for its handcut and slightly uneven Roman letters.