Year: 2025
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Participant #23,000: Clay Esshom
We’ve just passed another milestone in the collection of Campaign participants at Antietam on the Web – now over 23,000 individuals in the database. Number 23,000 is Private Clay Esshom of Company A, 14th Indiana Infantry, who survived a fearful gunshot through his body in combat at Antietam on 17 September 1862 – then a…
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First Sergeant W.H. Andrews at Sharpsburg
Our rations were out Sunday. Monday and Tuesday we had nothing but water … Just about sunset, a cow came feeding in front of our lines. Gen. [G.T.] Anderson ordered her killed and divided among the brigade. Soon had my little piece broiled over the coals, and ate it with the blood running out, without…
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An English saddle in wartime Richmond
Behold a receipt for an English Saddle & Equipments purchased by Sharpsburg veteran Major, soon to be Lieutenant Colonel Henry A Rogers of the 13th North Carolina Infantry in Richmond, VA in July 1863. It was $125. For reference, due to wartime shortages and inflation, bacon cost $1.25/pound and flour was $28/barrel in Richmond, four…
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The 13th Alabama Infantry in Maryland, in detail
I’ve just completed a thorough scrub through the records of the men of the 13th Alabama Infantry and extracted details for those on the Maryland Campaign of September 1862.
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Savage shoes
This from the Terrell, Texas Register by way of the of Fairfield Recorder of 28 August 1896. I’ve not found who “old Hannah” was, but Joe Savage was a Sharpsburg veteran, a Private in the 13th Alabama Infantry. He lost his lower leg and foot to amputation two weeks after he was wounded at Jones’…
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Henry Roger Jones: 4 in uniform
Here are some excellent photographs of Henry Roger Jones very kindly sent me by his great-great-granddaughter Deborah Burks. Henry was a 23 year old law student in Illinois in early 1861, but returned to his native state and enrolled as First Sergeant of Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry in September. Here he is, on the…
