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Officers of Company A of the Second Vermont Volunteers; taken at Gaines’ House, near Mechanicsville, Virginia. This small, faded photograph by George H. Houghton is online from the Bennington Museum; probably from the collection of the Vermont Historical Society. Based on the service/commissioning dates of these officers, it was taken between 21 May and 17…

Antietam veteran Private John Savin Appleton was a student at the Free Military School for Applicants for Command of Colored Troops at 1210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA in the summer of 1864, and afterward passed an examination by a board of officers in Washington, DC and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 31st United States…

Thanks to Christy Centeno for sending along this clipping about Private Leander Arendt from the Cumberland, MD Civilian & Telegraph of 2 October 1862; she found it online in the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America collection.

This James F Gibson photograph of June 1862 is from the Library of Congress. Pictured left to right are: Lt. Henry Clay Meinell, Captain Horatio Gates Gibson, Lt. Edmund Pendleton, and Lt. William Duncan Fuller. The first three were together at Antietam in September that year.

Taken in New Orleans in 1867, this photograph was sold by J. Mountain Antiques of Ashburnham, MA. Pictured, left to right, are 1st Lt. Ballard S. Humphrey, Sgt. John B. Charlton (guidon, Battery K), Capt. William Montrose Graham, 2nd Lt. Charles King (son of Gen. Rufus King), 1st Lt. John J. Driscoll. At Antietam, Humphrey…

This fascinating map is found in the 1895 Annual Report to stockholders of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, Horace John Hayden, Second Vice President. It’s online as a PDF from Terry Link on his Canada Southern Railway (once part of Cornelius Vanderbilt’s 19th Century railroad empire) website. Horace Hayden was two…