Category: best of
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The 13th Alabama Infantry in Maryland, in detail
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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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The charge of the 7th Maine at Antietam
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One of the saddest stories of Antietam is that of the vain heroism of the 7th Maine Infantry on the Piper Farm at about 5 pm on 17 September 1862.
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Captain W.R. Smedberg and family
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Captain William Renwick Smedberg was in command of Company F, First Battalion, 14th United States Infantry in combat at Antietam on 17 September 1862. He was seriously wounded in the Wilderness in 1864 and lost his right foot to amputation, but survived the war and served another 5 years in the US Army afterward. Here…
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Not in Antietam National Cemetery
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Readers occasionally ask about this, and I can never find them when I want them, hence this list. It will evolve as I learn more.
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Quebec Schoolhouse: a desperate little cavalry battle
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I got pulled off track by a trooper of the 3rd Indiana Cavalry, James Williamson, who was killed in a little-known cavalry skirmish at the Quebec Schoolhouse near Middletown, MD on 13 September 1862 …
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Modern headstones
I’ve seen dozens of modern-era grave markers with errors large and small over the years of researching my soldiers, but had not thought to make a list or keep a log of them until recently …
