Accident near Antietam (1863)
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This item from the Frederick Examiner of 29 April 1863 is online thanks to Crossroads of War from the Catoctin Center for Regional Studies. My transcription: About 3 o’clock on last Saturday afternoon, Mr. D Keplinger, living near the Battle… continue reading
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Corporal Farmer gets a new stone
This is the first time I’ve seen this in many years visiting Antietam National Cemetery: an obvious replacement headstone … an Ohioan in a row of Connecticut soldiers. continue reading
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Lt Max Wimpfheimer (1862)
Here’s 2nd Lieutenant Maximilian Wimpfheimer of Company G, 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves, who was killed at Antietam on 17 September 1862, just about 2 months after this picture was taken. He was born in Germany and was about 21 years old… continue reading
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Sgt Charles Broomhall at Antietam
Almost exactly 20 years ago Carolyn Ivanoff shared with me (and AotW) her research about and transcription of the wartime diary of Charles D. M. Broomhall, Sergeant in the 124th Pennsylvania Infantry, describing his experience on the Maryland Campaign. On… continue reading
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Lt Col Lawrence H Scruggs (1862)
Here’s Lawrence Houston Scruggs in a photograph taken in October 1862 after he’d been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of his regiment, the 4th Alabama Infantry. He enlisted as a Private in his hometown of Huntsville in May 1861, and was… continue reading
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Maryes in Maryland
Here’s Lieutenant Edward A. Marye‘s (probably pronounced “Mary”) family home in Fredericksburg, VA as it looked in May 1864, then in use as a Union military hospital for troops wounded during the battle of the Wilderness. First Lieutenant E.A. Marye… continue reading
