Category: biography
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McClure brothers, 24th Georgia Infantry
Here are the three Irish-born McClure brothers of White County, Georgia who served together in Company K of the 24th Georgia Infantry during the war: James Samuel (1828-1907), at left, may have been with his company in Maryland in September 1862, but departed, sick with typhoid, in October, and spent much of the rest of…
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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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Melissa R, Eugene A, and DeWitt C Smith (1861)
Here are DeWitt Clinton Smith and his family in an ambrotype photograph probably taken as he prepared to leave his home in Minnesota for the war in the east. He’d married Melissa R. Shepard (1827-1905) in Michigan in 1847 – they were both from his hometown of Barre, NY – and their son Eugene Adelbert…
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Charles Jackson’s left-hand penmanship
Charles Jackson, a Private in the 8th Connecticut Infantry was not quite 18 years old when he was shot through the right wrist at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and captured there at the farthest advance of the Union Ninth Corps that day, nearly to the town of Sharpsburg. [Charles Jackson, c. 1865] The next…
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Hospital lists after Antietam
On 12 October 1862 the New York Times printed lists of soldiers who died at several field hospitals near the battlefield in the 2 weeks immediately after Antietam. They contain some excellent detail I’ve not seen elsewhere, and I’m saving them here [PDF] for current and future reference.
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Captain W.R. Smedberg and family
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…
