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Near the end of his long life, Sharpsburg survivor William Samuel Agnew, late Lieutenant of the 19th Mississippi Infantry, attended the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) reunion at Jacksonville, FL in May 1914. Here he is – mostly beard and hat – on that occasion. This picture was shared to the FamilySearch database by Jimmy Freeman…

This is John Kirkpatrick, who enlisted in the 45th Pennsylvania Infantry in October 1861, probably 16 or 17 years old, and was mortally wounded at Antietam not quite one year later. Thanks to descendant Barry van Brunt for sending me this superb photograph.

Lieutenant Ivory Quinn Perry of Company A, 19th Mississippi Infantry was wounded in the foot and captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and afterward disabled for active service. This photograph of him in uniform was kindly contributed to the FamilySearch database by Natalie Brannon in July 2022.

Captain Noah A Burly, a Captain in the 17th South Carolina Infantry sent the following to the Confederate authorities in Richmond, VA on behalf of his brother James Calvin Burly, late of the 12th Mississippi Infantry. James was wounded at Sharpsburg in September 1862 and again, mortally, at Gettysburg in July 1863. Notes This document…

William George Stigler was 3rd Sergeant of Company I, 12th Mississippi Infantry when he was wounded at Sharpsburg in September 1862. He was captured in the Wilderness, VA in May 1864, by then reduced to Private, and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to March 1865. At the end of the War he was…

A fine post-war photograph of Theodore Barber Day, Antietam veteran and late Private, Company C, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, thanks to descendant Sam Day. Theodore’s great grandson Terence Lee Day and his son Daniel S Day researched and produced a Life History [PDF] of him in 2017. Daniel shared it on the FamilySearch database and invites…