Category: quickPost/Pix
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Major General Jacob Dolson Cox … surrounded by images of nine of his officers (c. 1862)
This set of photographs date from 1862-63 and, in addition to General Cox (center), includes 9 of his staff officers. Cox had command of the Kanawha Division/Ninth Army Corps at the start of the Maryland Campaign of 1862 and many of these men accompanied him there. The other officers are identified, clockwise from the top:…
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Wounded by one of our own shells
On 22 September 1862 Brigadier General Samuel D Sturgis completed the after-action report for his Division (Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac) describing their role on South Mountain and at Antietam earlier that month. One tiny detail from that report is the following mention of a man I’m sorry to say I’d…
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Assistant Surgeon Thomas W McMillin (c. 1862)
This expressive photograph of a young Assistant Surgeon Thomas McMillin was kindly shared to the FamilySearch database [free login required] by Kelly Harrison Thomas in 2021. Dr. McMillan was Medical Purveyor of the Army of the Potomac at Antietam in 1862 and into 1863. In 1864 and 1865 he was in charge of US Army…
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US Army signal stations at Antietam
I’ve consulted this fine map on more than one occasion during my recent research into signal officers and surgeons at Antietam. It is annotated with the locations of US Army field hospitals and signal stations on and near the battlefield, and is a compilation of two earlier maps which supported the after-action reports of Army…
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Lt William F Barrett, Signal Corps, USV (c. 1863)
This lovely photograph of Lieutenant William Francis Barrett, complete with Signal Corps kepi, was taken by T.M. Schleier, photographer, Nashville, Knoxville & Chattanooga, TN, and is in the massive Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress [online]. On 17 September 1862 … … As our lines advanced on the west…
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Saw surrender of Lee (1924)
On the occasion of Jedediah Chase Paine‘s 85th birthday the Lititz (PA) Record of 10 April 1924 published this piece about his presence at Appomattox Court House in April 1865 when he was a Captain, Signal Corps, US Volunteers. He had been with the Army of the Potomac on South Mountain and at Antietam in…
