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Shot by some Col. for misbehavior
I have met a lot of the soldiers of the Maryland Campaign of 1862 and seen many of their stories, but this one may take the cake. Irish-born Richard Rogers had been a shoemaker in Carroll (now East Carroll) Parish before the war and enlisted in New Orleans in May 1861 in the Tiger Bayou…
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Mother is very uneasy about you
From the context of the letter below, Morgan O Taliaferro was a young, single man when he enlisted in New Orleans in the First Louisiana Volunteer Infantry in April 1861. He was a prisoner in Maryland for the first time in September 1862 when he was left behind, ill, in Frederick. He survived that experience…
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He fought like a hero
26 year old Sergeant Henry W Fullenwider of Company K, 23rd North Carolina Infantry was wounded in the thigh and side at Sharpsburg in September 1862 and was a prisoner in US Army hospitals on the field and in Frederick, MD, and at Fort McHenry in Baltimore before being exchanged to return to his unit…
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Grecian style couch of figured maple and cane (c. 1815)
Benjamin Huger (1768-1823) of Georgetown, SC … ordered “eighteen maple chairs with cushions, neat and fashionable but without gilding and two sofas d[itt]o to answer the above” from New York suppliers …
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The Warrenton Tragedies (1869)
Charles Wallace was the son of a prominent Atlanta businessman and politician, and first enlisted for war service in May 1861 with the First Georgia Infantry at age 17. When they were disbanded in early 1862 he enlisted again, as a trooper in Cobb’s Legion Cavalry Battalion. He was wounded in Maryland that September (probably…
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Questions. Questions.
Not-quite 19 year old farm boy John W Wesley enlisted at Decatur in DeKalb County, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Captain Luther Glenn’s Stephens Rifles – Company C of Cobb’s Legion Infantry Battalion. He was marked as present for the period of November and December 1861…
