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This from the Terrell, Texas Register by way of the of Fairfield Recorder of 28 August 1896. I’ve not found who “old Hannah” was, but Joe Savage was a Sharpsburg veteran, a Private in the 13th Alabama Infantry. He lost his lower leg and foot to amputation two weeks after he was wounded at Jones’…

Here are some excellent photographs of Henry Roger Jones very kindly sent me by his great-great-granddaughter Deborah Burks. Henry was a 23 year old law student in Illinois in early 1861, but returned to his native state and enrolled as First Sergeant of Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry in September. Here he is, on the…

Rufus King Felder and his cousin Miers Martindale Felder enlisted together in July 1861 near their homes in Washington County, TX, and joined the Dixie Blues, later Company E of the 5th Texas Infantry. They had their photographs taken soon afterward. Miers was seriously wounded at Manassas, VA on 30 August 1862 and was disabled…

Here’s the very image of pre-war South Carolina aristocracy: a young Richard Caspar Simpson, then about 20 years old, posing with his shotgun and hunting dog. He was oldest son and 2nd of 8 children of wealthy physician and slaveowner John Wells Simpson and his second wife Eliza Adams (1810-1854) and was raised in the…

I’ve spent hours today trying to untangle the military, family, and burial records that have been attached to William Fitzgerald Dean, late Corporal, 13th Alabama Infantry. I think I have the gist of it now, but what a mess. There is at least one other soldier with similar history and name, he of the 14th…