Year: 2023

Simon Pincus was a Sergeant in Company C, 66th New York Infantry when he was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in March 1864 and mustered out of service in August 1865. This portrait, probably based on or painted over a photograph, was kindly provided by its…

On the afternoon of 17 September 1862 the 4th Rhode Island Infantry were in action at Antietam in a large cornfield on the Otto farm above the lower (later Burnside’s) bridge: … as the enemy showed the national flag (the corn concealing their uniform), and as our troops had been seen in advance on our…

A photograph in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress. A former VMI cadet and later US Congressman, Lieutenant Turner was noted for his actions on South Mountain on 14 September and at least slightly wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

In April 1861 Marcellus Newton Moorman was appointed Captain in command of the Lynchburg (VA) Artillery and he led them in action on the Piper Farm at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. Here he is about the time of graduation from the Virginia Military Institute in 1856, from the fine VMI Archives collection.

This excellent photograph of Nelson Amariah Bemis was passed down through his descendants and sent to me by his great-great-grandson Mike LaRoi. Nelson was wounded at Antietam in September 1862 while serving as a Private in Company F of the 8th Connecticut Infantry, but survived his wounds and the war, and was a farmer in…

Lieutenant Mark Rambo Supplee, Company I, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry survived the successful assault across what later became known as Burnside’s Bridge at Antietam in September 1862. In November 1863 he was posted to the Convalescent Camp at Camp Nelson, near Lexington, KY, disabled by a gunshot through his foot at Fredericksburg, VA in December 1862.…