Category: quickPost/Pix
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Meter face, Equitable Meter Company (c. 1900)
One of the founding partners of Pittsburgh’s Equitable Meter Company (sometime after 1883) was Civil War veteran Henry Holdship King, who was a cavalry Lieutenant and staff officer in 1862. He came to my attention as the man the mortally wounded Colonel James H Childs, 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry called to his side at Antietam on…
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Sent to rear for want of shoes
It’s generally known that at least hundreds, perhaps thousands of Confederate soldiers did not cross into Maryland with the rest of the Army of Northern Virginia in September 1862 due to being barefoot. Until now, I’ve not seen documentation of this for a named individual soldier. Meet Henry M. Adams, Private, Company C, 2nd Mississippi…
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Thomas G Day at Quebec Schoolhouse (1899)
In a comment on an earlier post about the cavalry action at Quebec Schoolhouse near Middletown, MD on 13 September 1862, Amy Matzet offered a fascinating story about one of the participants – Thomas Groves Day – a Private in Company E of the 3rd Indiana Cavalry. The short version is that Private Day lost…
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J. Wilson Barnett, request for commission (1865)
James Wilson Barnett was a Private in the 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry at Antietam in September 1862 but was First Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the 10th Regiment, US Colored Troops by February 1864. In October 1865, then Assistant Inspector General of the First Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Army Corps at Corpus Christi, TX, he applied to…
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Prank CMSR record card (c. 1890)?
I’ve been through thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of the cards which make up the Compiled Military Service Records (CMSR) for my guys. I’ve never seen a card like this one (transcription below). It is from the CMSR jacket for Benjamin Franklin Taylor. He rose from Private to Colonel of the 2nd Maryland Infantry, USA…
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2nd Maryland Infantry (US) field, staff, & line officers (1865)
Camp scene taken Alex. Va. 1865; Field, Staff & Line 2nd Md. A photograph among the Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Maryland, posted to flickr; original from the Maryland Historical Society. Seated: 2nd Lt. Charles H. Boone (Co. A), Quartermaster Thomas H. Marshall, Capt. Frederick W. Heck (Co. K), Col. Benjamin Franklin Taylor, Lt.…
