Captain W.R. Smedberg and family
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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
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George Thomas Anderson (c. 1861)
I’d not seen this fine photograph of G.T. “Tige” Anderson before. It’s a recent (2021) addition to the now-massive Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress. It looks to have been taken when he was… continue reading
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Francis B Heitman and his Historical Register and Dictionary
Although he was not an Antietam veteran, I owe former Regular Army Sergeant Francis B. Heitman at least a brief biographical examination and my humble thanks. His massive work, the Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army from… continue reading
