Category: the history
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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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Who commanded the 32nd New York Infantry at Antietam?
Another in a series. Francis Effingham Pinto was in the grain storage and transport business in Brooklyn before and after the Civil War. He had been successful as a merchant since about 1850, when he decided to sell supplies to ’49ers in California rather than mining gold himself. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the…
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The charge of the 7th Maine at Antietam
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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National Cemetery serendipity
As I’ve done on my last several trips to the battlefield, I stopped to visit a few stones in Antietam National Cemetery this past week. Starting at the “back” – the south wall of the cemetery – I noticed particularly the rows of markers for the many unknown soldier buried there …
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Bolduc to Bulgick: Special Schedule – Surviving Soldiers … (1890)
As you probably know, nearly all 1890 United States Census records were destroyed in a fire in 1921 leaving a permanent information gap familiar to historians and genealogists. Not so familiar, I expect, are a set of special veteran’s schedules the Bureau collected during the 1890 Census, most of which survived. This Special Schedule was…
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Why the Union Army Did Not Win at Antietam.
Sergeant Patrick Breen fought with Company C of the 2nd United States Infantry above the Middle Bridge at Antietam on the afternoon of 17 September 1862, and two days later at Boteler’s Ford near Shepherdstown. Many years later, in 1895, he wrote a piece for the National Tribune – a Washington, DC newspaper which catered…
