Category: quickPost/Pix
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Pvt James Davis, 88th New York Infantry (c. 1862)
Private James Davis of the famed Irish Brigade was wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862. His leg was amputated by his regimental surgeon the next day. This photograph is in the National Museum of Health and Medicine’s Otis Historical Archives (posted to their Flickr account). Thanks to John Banks for the pointer to it.
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Dr. Charles Squire Wood (c. 1877)
This excellent portrait, from a steel plate engraving, is of Connecticut-born physician Charles Squire Wood, who was Assistant Surgeon of the 66th New York Infantry and treated wounded soldiers on the field after Antietam in September 1862. This copy is from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) collection at the National Library of…
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Going into Action (1887)
This evocative piece is from an etching by New York artist William Henry Shelton (1840-1932). He depicted horse artillery troops at Chancellorsville in May 1863, and had a run of 750 copies printed by Bryan, Taylor & Company in New York City in 1887. He deposited this copy with the Library of Congress in September…
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Calvaria trephined in the left frontal region (1862)
I’ve gone to Army Surgeon-General Joseph K Barnes’ Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1870-1883) many times over the years chasing Antietam casualties, but never done a systematic scrub through it. I’m underway on that now. Among the first cases I found was that of Private Samuel Altman of the 50th…
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Crampton’s Gap casualty list, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry
Appended to Colonel Cake’s official report as printed on page 2 of the Pottsville (PA) Miner’s Journal of Saturday, 4 October 1862, is his list of the men of his 96th Pennsylvania Infantry who were killed or wounded in the fight at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862. It’s not found in…
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Lt Evan Morrison Woodward (c. 1862)
A 34 year old clerk from Philadelphia, Morrison Woodward was Sergeant Major of the 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves when they fought in the Maryland Campaign of September 1862. He wrote of his experiences there in his 1865 regimental history, describing the scene at Turner’s Gap on the 14th and the terrible fighting on the evening of…
