This lovely carte-de-visite is of Horace W Jones, a 20 year old farmer in Wyoming County in Western New York State. About 2 years after he sat for that picture he was wounded in the leg at Antietam, then a… continue reading

This is the summary page from the pension file for 2 year old orphan William West Van Tine (1861-1928) of Clarence in Erie County, NY (touch the image to enlarge). His mother Anna West Van Tine had died 5 months… continue reading

Here are a uniformed Private William Henry Boorman of the 21st New York Infantry, who survived a wound to the chest at Antietam, and post-war a picture of him, both kindly shared online by Ruth Alice Anderson. continue reading

In January 1869 Antietam survivor Joshua G Towne, late of the 21st New York Infantry, was noted by the Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel for being the first to ride a velocipede – an early bicycle – on the streets of that… continue reading

This post card depicting Robert Simpson Westbrook‘s place in Altoona, PA recently sold on eBay. It is likely that’s old Bob himself in the rocker out front. Westbrook was an Antietam veteran who wrote the History of the 49th Pennsylvania… continue reading

Sharpsburg veteran George Wise of Alexandria, VA published his History of the Seventeenth Virginia Infantry, C.S.A. in 1870, probably based on his wartime diary, and the more ambitious Campaigns and Battles of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1916. His… continue reading