List of casualties in the Twelfth Mississippi Regiment (1862)
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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
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The children of Matilda Eleanor Black & John Marshall Shirley (c. 1900)
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
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Zook murders near Vicksburg, 1866
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
