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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…

Raised a farmer, Adam Swartlander left a wife and 3 small children at home in Butler County near Pittsburgh, PA when he enlisted in July 1861 as a Private in Company C of the 9th Pennsylvania Reserves. He was killed just over a year later at Antietam on 17 September 1862, not quite 30 years…

I’ve occasionally found Confederate veterans of the Battle of Sharpsburg who were later captured but were released from prison by taking an oath and enlisting for United States Army service in US Volunteer Infantry regiments – soldiers known also as Galvanized Yankees. Apparently more than 5,000 ex-Confederates served in those units before the end of…