Category: digital history
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Sgt Charles Broomhall at Antietam
Almost exactly 20 years ago Carolyn Ivanoff shared with me (and AotW) her research about and transcription of the wartime diary of Charles D. M. Broomhall, Sergeant in the 124th Pennsylvania Infantry, describing his experience on the Maryland Campaign. On my visit to the battlefield last Friday morning I saw this wayside for the first…
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Dr. Lesley Gordon’s Roster, 16th Connecticut Infantry (2014)
While researching her 2014 book about the regiment, Dr Lesley Gordon compiled a roster after my own heart, including pre- and post-war details not usually found in military records. She shared a spreadsheet containing her data on her book’s page. I’ve posted a copy here in the event that page ever goes away. Here’s how…
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Huzzah! Hathi Trust
My favorite basic source for Louisiana troops is Andrew Bradford Booth’s three volume set (in 7 books) of the Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands (1920). A one-stop shop for the military basics on more than 102,000 individuals. Until recently I’d consulted an online text transcription of Booth’s work, but it’s disappeared.…
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Clickable, annotated Elliot burial map now on AotW
In 1864, building on information collected by others, civil engineer Simon G. Elliott documented the locations of more than 5,800 soldiers’ burials on the battlefield of Antietam on a map. His similar work for burials at Gettysburg has long been known, but a copy of his Antietam map lay largely unnoticed in the New York…
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Charles F Williams, Jr and the MOLLUS Massachusetts Photograph Collection
This is Lieutenant Charles Frederick Williams, Jr. of the 35th Massachusetts Infantry. He was mortally wounded in action at Fox’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and died of wounds in Middletown, MD on 22 September. His photo is from the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the US, Massachusetts Commandery (MOLLUS-Mass)…
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Site Redesign Complete
Antietam on the Web was a bit overdue for an overhaul: some of the PHP code had been deprecated (gone obsolete), much of the HTML was clumsy and likewise obsolete, and the site navigation didn’t make it easy to find the information on the site. Most of the navigation dated from 2005, and even the…
