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Private Michael Ball of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry may have been as young as 16 years old on the Maryland Campaign of 1862 and was probably wounded twice there, on South Mountain on 14 September and at Antietam three days later. By the end of 1862 he was back home with his parents, and afterward…

Their great-great-grandson Phil McLane sent me this lovely photograph of Catherine and Nicholas Broadwater, who married in 1868. Nicholas was a Private in the 7th South Carolina Infantry when he was wounded at Sharpsburg in September 1862. He survived the war to return to farming in Edgefield County, SC for the rest of his life.

Boley Embry Lord was a 22 year old private in the 24th Georgia Infantry when he was severely wounded by a gunshot to his left leg in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862. He was captured there and in US Army prison hospitals into April 1863, when he was finally…

Paschal Clue Eddings of the 2nd Mississippi Infantry was wounded at Sharpsburg in 1862, at Gettysburg in 1863, and on the Weldon Railroad in 1864, and also survived a stint as a prisoner of war. He was 5th Sergeant of his Company by the end of the war, but came home to almost nothing: his…

Simon Pincus was a Sergeant in Company C, 66th New York Infantry when he was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in March 1864 and mustered out of service in August 1865. This portrait, probably based on or painted over a photograph, was kindly provided by its…

On the afternoon of 17 September 1862 the 4th Rhode Island Infantry were in action at Antietam in a large cornfield on the Otto farm above the lower (later Burnside’s) bridge: … as the enemy showed the national flag (the corn concealing their uniform), and as our troops had been seen in advance on our…