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or, yes, there is at least one Confederate in the cemetery On my recent visit to Sharpsburg I took photographs of several headstones in the Antietam National Cemetery, as is my habit, intending to look into the men under them when I got home. The very first was this one: The 1869 cemetery History and…

Walter David McAdoo came from a long line of successful merchants and entrepreneurs in Greensboro, Guilford County, NC. He left Dickinson College in Pennsylvania at the start of the Civil War and enlisted as a Private soldier in the Guilford Greys – soon afterward Company B of the 27th North Carolina Infantry. He was wounded…

22 year old Private Charles A Trask of the 13th Massachusetts Infantry was mortally wounded in the lower abdomen by this chunk of iron at Antietam on 17 September 1862, and died about two weeks later in a hospital in Chambersburg, PA. His record in the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the…

Henry Grove Bigelow was the 20 year old Sergeant Major of the 15th Massachusetts Infantry when he was seriously wounded at Antietam in September 1862, by a gunshot through his hip which shattered part of his pelvis. He was at home recovering when he was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in October 1862 and still there when…

Nathan Andrew Feaster was from a prominent family in the Fairfield District, SC; his father Andrew was a wealthy planter, his grandfather John reached Fairfield from Lancaster, PA sometime before 1810. In 1844 an itinerant portrait artist named George Williamson Livermore Ladd painted several members of the Feaster family, including Nathan. He was then about…