Lt Smith Spangler Turner, 17th Virginia Infantry
15 September 2023
A photograph in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress. A former VMI cadet and later US Congressman, Lieutenant Turner was noted for his actions on South Mountain on 14 September and at least slightly wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
VMI Cadet Marcellus N Moorman (1856)
16 June 2023
In April 1861 Marcellus Newton Moorman was appointed Captain in command of the Lynchburg (VA) Artillery and he led them in action on the Piper Farm at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
Here he is about the time of graduation from the Virginia Military Institute in 1856, from the fine VMI Archives collection.
Nelson A Bemis (c. 1861)
13 June 2023
This excellent photograph of Nelson Amariah Bemis was passed down through his descendants and sent to me by his great-great-grandson Mike LaRoi.
Nelson was wounded at Antietam in September 1862 while serving as a Private in Company F of the 8th Connecticut Infantry, but survived his wounds and the war, and was a farmer in Illinois for many years afterward.
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