behind AotW

This imposing item is a plaster bust of Leopold Blumenberg, brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers and late Major, 5th Maryland Infantry. Painted to look like marble, it’s in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Baltimore.

Blumenberg commanded the 5th Maryland at Antietam and was seriously wounded near the Sunken Road/Bloody lane there on 17 September 1862.