Category: quickPost/Pix
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The overworked brain of Emory Upton
Emory Upton graduated 8th in the May class of 1861 from the US Military Academy at West Point and was immediately at war. And he was very good at it. For the whole of his 20 year military career thereafter he was recognized as a superior combat leader, tactician, and military thinker, and was rewarded…
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Who commanded the 32nd New York Infantry at Antietam?
Another in a series. Francis Effingham Pinto was in the grain storage and transport business in Brooklyn before and after the Civil War. He had been successful as a merchant since about 1850, when he decided to sell supplies to ’49ers in California rather than mining gold himself. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the…
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Officers of the US Sixth Corps (May 1862)
This fine James F. Gibson photograph is now in the collection of the Library of Congress. He took it on 14 May 1862 at Cumberland Landing, VA. Seated: Col. Joseph J. Bartlett (formerly identified as Andrew A. Humphreys), Henry Slocum, Wm. B. Franklin, Wm. F. Barry and John Newton. Officers standing not indentified. African American…
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USS Monocacy (c. 1890)
Antietam survivor Martin J. Casey served through the war with Batteries A and B of the First Maryland Light Artillery and soon after, in 1866, enlisted in the US Navy. He served mostly on the Asiatic Station over nearly 25 years, on at least 8 ships, including this one. She’s sidewheel gunboat USS Monocacy, pictured…
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Capt John D Frank, Battery G/1st NY Light Artillery
This stunning object is the hilt of a highly decorated United States Model of 1850 Foot Officer’s Sword presented by the men of his battery to Captain John Davis Frank in February 1862. Even more amazing is that the same men were near mutiny just a month or two later due to his abusive treatment…
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Who commanded the 19th Mississippi at Sharpsburg?
In his invaluable manuscript history of the Maryland Campaign of 1862, General Ezra Carman asserted that Captain Nathaniel W. [H.] Harris commanded the 19th Mississippi Infantry at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and was wounded in action there. If he had been there he would have been the senior officer present, as all 3 field…
