Officers of the Artillery Brigade, 3d Corps, and Alfred R. Waud, artist correspondent (1863)
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James Gardner took this photograph at Brandy Station, VA in December 1863. The men in it are identified (left to right) as: Captain Samuel A McClellan(d) – Battery G, First New York Light, 1861-65, formerly 2nd Lieutenant of Busteed’s Chicago… continue reading
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Major Knipe Winging a Secessionist (1861)
From Harper’s Weekly, 20 July 1861 Our special war correspondent and artist of General Patterson’s Division, now in Virginia, furnishes us this week with a sketch of an exciting incident which lately occurred at Williamsport…. Major [Joseph Farmer] Knipe, of… continue reading
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The overworked brain of Emory Upton
Emory Upton graduated 8th in the May class of 1861 from the US Military Academy at West Point and was immediately at war. And he was very good at it. For the whole of his 20 year military career thereafter… continue reading
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Who commanded the 32nd New York Infantry at Antietam?
Another in a series. Francis Effingham Pinto was in the grain storage and transport business in Brooklyn before and after the Civil War. He had been successful as a merchant since about 1850, when he decided to sell supplies to… continue reading
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Officers of the US Sixth Corps (May 1862)
This fine James F. Gibson photograph is now in the collection of the Library of Congress. He took it on 14 May 1862 at Cumberland Landing, VA. Seated: Col. Joseph J. Bartlett (formerly identified as Andrew A. Humphreys), Henry Slocum,… continue reading
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USS Monocacy (c. 1890)
Antietam survivor Martin J. Casey served through the war with Batteries A and B of the First Maryland Light Artillery and soon after, in 1866, enlisted in the US Navy. He served mostly on the Asiatic Station over nearly 25… continue reading
