Category: my favorites
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The Battle Leaders of the Battery.
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From the frontpiece of Augustus C Buell’s The Cannoneer: Recollections of Service in the Army of the Potomac (1890), here are some of the officers of Battery B, 4th United States Artillery before and during the war. Etchings after photographs. Captain Campbell commanded the battery at Antietam until wounded, succeeded by Lieutenant Stewart. Brigadier General…
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Candy the little white dog
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Company B of the 4th Texas Infantry had a little white terrier as a mascot, given them by an Austin confectioner at the start of the war (said Ted Alexander). Among the soldiers on his roster of the the Company, Val C. Giles listed the dog: “Candy,” the little white dog, went with the company…
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Congressman J.M. Pinckney (c. 1904)
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In the 1840s and 1850s the Lawrences and the Pinckneys were farm neighbors in Grimes County, Texas. Farmer and tanner Martin Byrd Lawrence’s (1794-1851) place was in the tiny community of Retreat – named for the nearby plantation of early Texas pioneer Jared Ellison Groce (1782–1839), called Groce’s Retreat. Martin had been a friend and…
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Why the Union Army Did Not Win at Antietam.
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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…
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Frederick hospitals November 1, 1862
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From the American Medical Times of 1 November 1862 [via GoogleBooks], a list of the Surgeons-in-charge and locations/buildings making up each of the US Army’s ten General Hospitals in Frederick, MD after Antietam. Here’s Surgeon John Jefferson Milhau in a carte-de-visite photograph posted to his Findagrave memorial by Family Search (the Mormon genealogy database) ……
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Approved and respectfully forwarded
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This is the outside of a 30 October 1863 application submitted by Lieutenant George H Kearse, then commanding Company G of the 17th South Carolina Infantry, concerning Private Jones Frank Jones of his Company. Jones had been wounded by a buckshot through his left hand at Turner’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862,…
