Category: quickPost/Pix
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A. Lincoln to JAG J. Holt 18 March 1863
John Benson Williams, US Military Academy Class of May 1861, was First Lieutenant, 3rd United States Infantry at Antietam in September 1862, and commanded Company G there. Antietam was the peak of his young military career, however, as he was sentenced by a Court Martial to be dismissed from the service in February 1863, having…
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Cope and Co.’s Ship Saranak (1851)
This is the packet ship Saranak of the Cope Line entering port with a steam tug at Philadelphia, PA in a brilliant watercolor by David Johnson Kennedy of August 1851. Irish-born Antietam veteran Colwell Carr of the First Pennsylvania Reserves was a passenger on that ship from Liverpool to Philadelphia in May 1849. He settled…
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Reno, Sumner, and Gilbert (c. 1866)
Here’s a lovely photograph of 3 couples taken by Le Rue Lemer in Harrisburg, PA, probably in late 1866 or early 1867. That’s Captain Marcus Albert Reno, First United States Cavalry, left front, and his wife Mary Hanna Ross (1843-1874; m. 1863), behind him. Reno commanded a detachment of the First Cavalry at Antietam at…
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Officers of the USMA Class of 1860 (August 1862)
A new project: to identify the men in this Alexander Gardner photograph taken at Harrison’s Landing, VA in August 1862. Of special interest to me are those officers who were on the Maryland Campaign a month later. #1 – Lt. James Harrison Wilson #2 – Lt. Charles Edward Hazlett (’61)* #4 – Lt. Nicholas Bowen?…
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Alexander James & Arabella Smith Dallas (c. 1800)
Alexander James Dallas III was at Antietam in 1862, a Captain in the Second Battalion, 12th United States Infantry. He was from a prominent family, as you might guess from these Gilbert Stuart portraits of his grandparents Alexander James Dallas (the First, 1759-1817) and Arabella Maria Smith Dallas (1761-1837). They were “one of the more…
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Poughkeepsie, NY Main Street (1860); S.H. Bogardus (1865)
This would have been a familiar view for Stephen H Bogardus and his sons Stephen and Eliphalet (!) who worked together in the family’s saddle and harness shop about a block east on Main Street across from the Gregory House Hotel. Stephen H Bogardus, Jr. enlisted in April 1861 in the 5th New York Infantry…
