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

From left to right: Standing, Mrs. Leach [Martha Capers “Mattie”], Mrs. West [Adelaide Celestia], Mrs. Boon [Alice Ann Black], Mrs. Moore [Augusta Letitia]; Sitting, Rev R. A. [Robert Alexander] Shirley, Mrs. Coalson [Mary Eleanor], Rev J.J. [Joseph Jonathan] Shirley, Mrs.… continue reading

Two young farmers from Lancaster, PA, Abraham and Noah Zook, went to Mississippi in 1866 and invested more than $3000 in a cotton plantation near Vicksburg in partnership with local men, Sharpsburg survivor Cyrus Lafayette Broome and his brother(s) Elliott… continue reading

18 year old Benjamin David Hennington enlisted as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry in April 1861. He survived a wound at Sharpsburg in 1862, by then a Sergeant, was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in 1863, and was wounded… continue reading

From the New Orleans Daily Picayune of 29 October 1862, online from Newspapers.com, casualties among the troops of the 16th Mississippi Infantry at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862: I’ve looked into each of these names and improved the roster of… continue reading

Captain Eugene A. Hawkins, Colonel William H. Willis, and Captain Howard Tinsley of 4th Georgia Infantry Regiment in uniform: a photograph in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress. Hawkins was First Lieutenant of… continue reading