1Lt Daniel M Brodhead, 1LT George K Brady, 14th US Infantry (c. 1863)
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A digital copy of a photograph at the US Army Heritage & Education Center at Carlisle Barracks, PA. Their description is CWP 100.15: First Lieutenant Daniel Mifflin Brodhead and First Lieutenant George [Keyports] Brady, 14th Regiment, United States Infantry, in… continue reading
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John P Shelton, 13th Massachusetts Infantry (1861)
18 year old John Parker Shelton was initially only wounded in the foot at Antietam on 17 September 1862, but while helping another soldier to the rear was hit again, in the spine, and died of his wounds two days… continue reading
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Captain W.R. Smedberg and family
Captain William Renwick Smedberg was in command of Company F, First Battalion, 14th United States Infantry in combat at Antietam on 17 September 1862. He was seriously wounded in the Wilderness in 1864 and lost his right foot to amputation,… continue reading
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John Sedgwick (1862)
This fine photograph, in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, was made from an original Brady glass plate negative in the Frederick Hill Meserve Collection. It’s especially interesting to me because it pictures General Sedwick still recovering… continue reading
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Musician Robert J. Robinson, 6th US Infantry
Like so many soldiers of the American Civil War, County Tyrone native Robert J. Robinson died, not from combat, but from disease. He succumbed to “congestive fever” at an Army field hospital at Sharpsburg, MD on 7 October 1862 and… continue reading
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Max Weber (c. 1862)
Brigadier General Max Weber, formerly of the Grand Duke of Baden’s army, led a Union Brigade in an attack on the Confederate position in the Sunken Road at Antietam on 17 September 1862, and was badly wounded in the right… continue reading
