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PHOTOGRAPH 166. Case of Recovery after a Penetrating Gunshot Wound of the Ascending Colon. Colonel Edward W Hincks, commanding the 19th Massachusetts Infantry, was severely wounded at about noon on 17 September 1862 at Antietam. He was hit by a bullet that went through his right forearm, then through his body, exiting very near his…

Tompion: a plug pushed into the muzzle of a rifle to keep out dirt and water. This example, probably for an English-made Enfield model of 1853, made of brass and cork, was sold by the Horse Soldier in Gettysburg. The soldier’s culpable negligence in failing to remove the tompion before firing, resulted sometimes in the…

17 year old farm boy Thomas E Sims enlisted as a Private in the Orange Guards – Company G of the 27th North Carolina Infantry – in March 1862. Which is probably when this photograph was taken. He survived the terrible combat at Sharpsburg in September that year but was mortally wounded in a little…

In 1882 one-legged Sharpsburg veteran Willie Thomas Patterson was appointed Bursar of the University of North Carolina, and served in that post for most of the rest of his life, to 1909. He was raised the 5th of 7 children by wealthy parents James Newton (1806-1865) and Lucy Hawkins Couch Patterson (1808-1848) on their large…

Samuel Hodgman was First Lieutenant of Company I of the 7th Michigan Infantry at Antietam on 17 September 1862. He was wounded in both legs there and spent more than two months in hospitals recovering. He wrote his father Moses (1804-1881), back in Michigan, from the US Army General Hospital in West Philadelphia, PA on…

This stunning work is by William Sadler II (c. 1782—1839). His father, an English portrait painter and engraver, brought him to Ireland as a boy. William’s son Rupert (c. 1810-1892), also an artist, took his family to America from Ireland in about 1845 and worked in Boston. Rupert’s son Rupert J Sadler (Ireland 1842-Gettysburg 1863) –…