Category: best of
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Ben Witcher’s Story
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“A comrade by my side suggested we had better leave … but noticing the [dead] men lying along the fence I replied no, we have a line, let them come.”
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From Antietam to the Arctic: A.W. Greely
Adolphus Greely was only 18 years old but already a veteran of more than a year’s Army service by the time he was wounded in the face in combat in or near the West Woods at Antietam on the morning of 17 September 1862. He was a Corporal in Company B, 19th Massachusetts Infantry. Before…
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Antietam 150: The Dead of the Maryland Campaign
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Although mostly complete, these lists of the Campaign dead are an ongoing work – I will continue to add individuals as I learn of them.
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Audenried ’61
Joseph Audenried (1839-1880) was fresh from the US Military Academy at West Point as the American Civil War began in the Spring of 1861 …
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Morrison family ties
The Reverend Doctor Robert Hall Morrison (1798-1889) was father-in-law to three Confederate general officers: D.H. Hill, Rufus C. Barringer, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson (m. Mary Anna 1857).
