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While looking into Private David Brinson (previous blog post) of the 13th Georgia Infantry, or more specifically, his wife Martha, I bumped back into her older brother James Dunbar Van Valkenburgh. Captain Van Valkenburgh was briefly in command of his regiment, the 61st Georgia Infantry at Sharpsburg before being wounded in combat there. He was…

This is Private David Kellum Brinson, from Plains, GA, probably taken shortly after he enlisted in Company H of the 13th Georgia in July 1861. I’m guessing the small card in his hand is a photograph or other memento his his soon-to-be wife Martha Gilbert Van Valkenburg. He was promoted on the field at Sharpsburg…

Private Joseph Andrew Roe of Company G, 13th Georgia Infantry was wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. Several later muster roll records say he enlisted in Frederick, MD only days before, on either 5 or 15 September: Although fun to imagine he was wounded as few as two days after joining his Company, I…

Falton K Lewis was about 20 years old when he was hit by a gunshot to his thigh at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862. He died of his wound in a hospital in Richmond, VA on the last day of 1862 and someone there took an inventory of his possessions. Money in Confederate notes…

Company I’s First Sergeant John Marshall Hoyt was wounded at Turner’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and again in Wilderness, VA in May 1864, but survived the war, mustering out as Captain in June 1865. His CDV here is from the collection of the Wisconsin Historical Society, and they’ve shared it online.

From a 50th anniversary tribute in the Buffalo Times of May 1911 to the First Company, Buffalo (NY) Volunteers – later Company A, 21st New York Infantry – comes the face of Levi Vallier. He was their First Lieutenant when he was wounded at Antietam in September 1862 and mustered out as Captain of the…