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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…

S.H. Whitworth (c. 1870) [touch image to see the whole piece] A man familiar with violence, Samuel Hudson Whitworth survived a serious wound at Sharpsburg in 1862 while a Sergeant in Company C, 12th Mississippi, and in March 1886 was instrumental in the shooting deaths of 23 black citizens in a vigilante action at the…

From the records of the US War Department’s Office of the Quartermaster General, now online thanks to Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.com, here’s his widow’s application for a government marker for Sharpsburg survivor Leroy Thomas Daughtry, late Sergeant, Company C, 12th Mississippi Infantry. He died relatively young, just about 30 years old, in 1871.

From the New Orleans Daily Picayune of 29 October 1862, online from Newspapers.com, casualties among the troops of the 19th Mississippi Infantry at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862:

From the New Orleans Daily Picayune of 29 October 1862, online from Newspapers.com, casualties among the troops of the 12th Mississippi Infantry at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862: See more about these men starting with the AotW page for the regiment.