Participant #23,000: Clay Esshom
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We’ve just passed another milestone in the collection of Campaign participants at Antietam on the Web – now over 23,000 individuals in the database. Number 23,000 is Private Clay Esshom of Company A, 14th Indiana Infantry, who survived a fearful… continue reading
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First Sergeant W.H. Andrews at Sharpsburg
Our rations were out Sunday. Monday and Tuesday we had nothing but water … Just about sunset, a cow came feeding in front of our lines. Gen. [G.T.] Anderson ordered her killed and divided among the brigade. Soon had my… continue reading
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An English saddle in wartime Richmond
Behold a receipt for an English Saddle & Equipments purchased by Sharpsburg veteran Major, soon to be Lieutenant Colonel Henry A Rogers of the 13th North Carolina Infantry in Richmond, VA in July 1863. It was $125. For reference, due… continue reading
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The 13th Alabama Infantry in Maryland, in detail
I’ve just completed a thorough scrub through the records of the men of the 13th Alabama Infantry and extracted details for those on the Maryland Campaign of September 1862. continue reading
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Savage shoes
This from the Terrell, Texas Register by way of the of Fairfield Recorder of 28 August 1896. I’ve not found who “old Hannah” was, but Joe Savage was a Sharpsburg veteran, a Private in the 13th Alabama Infantry. He lost… continue reading
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Henry Roger Jones: 4 in uniform
Here are some excellent photographs of Henry Roger Jones very kindly sent me by his great-great-granddaughter Deborah Burks. Henry was a 23 year old law student in Illinois in early 1861, but returned to his native state and enrolled as… continue reading
