Year: 2026
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I will give a reward of twenty-five dollars
Private Gilbert L Kirkpatrick of the 16th North Carolina Infantry was one of hundreds of Confederate soldiers who were sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD between 6 September 1862, when the first elements of the Army of Northern Virginia arrived in the city, and 12 September, when the army departed for points north and…
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Shot by some Col. for misbehavior
I have met a lot of the soldiers of the Maryland Campaign of 1862 and seen many of their stories, but this one may take the cake. Irish-born Richard Rogers had been a shoemaker in Carroll (now East Carroll) Parish before the war and enlisted in New Orleans in May 1861 in the Tiger Bayou…
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Mother is very uneasy about you
From the context of the letter below, Morgan O Taliaferro was a young, single man when he enlisted in New Orleans in the First Louisiana Volunteer Infantry in April 1861. He was a prisoner in Maryland for the first time in September 1862 when he was left behind, ill, in Frederick. He survived that experience…
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He fought like a hero
26 year old Sergeant Henry W Fullenwider of Company K, 23rd North Carolina Infantry was wounded in the thigh and side at Sharpsburg in September 1862 and was a prisoner in US Army hospitals on the field and in Frederick, MD, and at Fort McHenry in Baltimore before being exchanged to return to his unit…
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Grecian style couch of figured maple and cane (c. 1815)
Benjamin Huger (1768-1823) of Georgetown, SC … ordered “eighteen maple chairs with cushions, neat and fashionable but without gilding and two sofas d[itt]o to answer the above” from New York suppliers …
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Blog turns 20, gets facelift
This blog has had the same design since my first post in March 2006, and this 20th anniversary was a good time to spruce it up. 20 years is like 100 in internet-years.
