Headstone application for Leroy T Daughtry (1929)
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From the records of the US War Department’s Office of the Quartermaster General, now online thanks to Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.com, here’s his widow’s application for a government marker for Sharpsburg survivor Leroy Thomas Daughtry, late Sergeant, Company C, 12th Mississippi… continue reading
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List of casualties in the Nineteenth Mississippi Regiment (1862)
From the New Orleans Daily Picayune of 29 October 1862, online from Newspapers.com, casualties among the troops of the 19th Mississippi Infantry at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862: continue reading
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List of casualties in the Twelfth Mississippi Regiment (1862)
From the New Orleans Daily Picayune of 29 October 1862, online from Newspapers.com, casualties among the troops of the 12th Mississippi Infantry at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862: See more about these men starting with the AotW page for the… continue reading
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Spring Symposium weekend at Sharpsburg
I made my semi-annual pilgrimage to Sharpsburg last week, focused on the Antietam Institute‘s Spring Symposium. For much more about the 2023 Symposium itself, look for Facebook and other social media posts from the Institute and some of my fellow… continue reading
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Thomas H. Green (c. 1870)
Private Thomas Henry Green of the 16th Mississippi Infantry survived a chest wound at Sharpsburg in 1862 and returned to duty to serve to the surrender at Appomattox Court House in 1865. Here he is somewhat post-war from a photograph… continue reading
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Death of John G Markham (1862)
From the Augusta, GA Weekly Constitutionalist of 22 October 1862, online from Georgia Historic Newspapers: John Garland Markham was 5th Sergeant of Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry when he was killed at Sharpsburg. First Lieutenant Charles Henry Wilson of Company… continue reading
