Category: quickPost/Pix
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William E Thorpe, student (c. 1860)
20 year old William Elmer Thorp enlisted in the 21st New York Infantry – the First Buffalo Regiment – in May 1861, was wounded at Antietam in September 1862, and mustered out with his regiment in May 1863, their two year term of service expired. He enlisted again, though, in the US Navy in August…
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Last days of Pvt Hayden, 13th Georgia (1863)
Joseph S Hayden of Company E, 13th Georgia Infantry survived a slight wound at Sharpsburg in 1862 but was mortally wounded and captured at Gettysburg in 1863. Here are the two pages of notes US Surgeon Newcombe kept about Hayden’s treatment in the hospital at Camp Letterman up to his death on 30 August 1863.…
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Lieut J.N. Ferguson to be exchanged (1864)
Here’s an artifact concerning Sharpsburg veteran Lieutenant John Nimrod Ferguson, 13th Georgia Infantry, while he was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD. He’d been wounded at Monocacy Junction and captured in July 1864 on Early’s raid. Ferguson survived the war and was Constable of Shiloh in Union Parish, LA when he was murdered in 1887…
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Henry and Permelia Reeves (c. 1916)
Henry Clay Reeves of Company I, 13th Georgia Infantry survived a wound at Sharpsburg in 1862 but lost his left arm above the elbow at Spotsylvania Court House in 1864. He married Permelia Catherine Jones in 1866 and died at age 82, two months after she did, in their 60th anniversary year. I’d guess this…
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Prison Times (April 1865)
New-to-me is this hand-made newspaper published in April 1865 by Confederate prisoners at Fort Delaware. Apparently it was the only edition and perhaps 3 or 4 copies survive. This one is online from New York Heritage, a project of the New York Historical Society. I came upon this while looking into Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin “Frank”…
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William W Covin, Hogansville, GA (c. 1920)
This beautiful photograph is of William Wesley Covin, a Sharpsburg survivor, late of the 13th Georgia Infantry, who was born, lived, and died in Hogansville, Troup County, GA over a period of 89 years. Rob Leverett, Jr posted this picture online on the WikiTree database.
