Category: my favorites
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Candy the little white dog
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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Frederick hospitals November 1, 1862
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 nine 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
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,…
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the visible landscape, historic context
In April 1988 the US Park Service produced a report about the Antietam National Battlefield and surroundings called analysis of the visible landscape [pdf]. Its stated purpose: Recently, residents and state and local administrators have become concerned that the rural character and lifestyle of south Washington County, including Antietam National Battlefield, are being eroded by…
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The view of a staff officer in Maryland
Lieutenant Richard C. Shannon of the 5th Maine Infantry was assigned as aide-de-camp to Major General Henry W. Slocum, commander of the First Division, 6th Army Corps, in March 1862. Although a well-educated young man, he was still learning his profession as a staff officer in August and September 1862. Shannon left behind some wartime…
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Charleston soul effigy headstone
Lieutenant Edwin R. White took command of the 23rd South Carolina as the senior officer remaining on the field on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and led them at Sharpsburg on the 17th. Edwin was in the 4th generation of a family of stonecutters in Charleston, noted for their gravestones and funerary sculpture, and…
