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

Portrait paintings of Richard Henry Rush (1825 – 1893) and his wife Susan Bowdoin Yerby (1829-1889) done about 2 years after their marriage in Baltimore. The Rush family had been prominent in Philadelphia since before the Revolution. Richard was Colonel… continue reading

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

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