Engravings of J.H.E. Whitney, late Sergeant, Hawkins’ Zouaves (c. 1880-1890)
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John Henry Ellsworth Whitney, Sergeant, Company B, 9th New York Infantry was seriously wounded in the pelvis during his regiment’s assault toward Sharpsburg on the afternoon of 17 September 1862, and was discharged, disabled, from a Frederick, MD hospital the… continue reading
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Regimental historian L.N. Chapin, 34th New York (1862, 1902)
Louis Nathan Chapin was a young printer before the war, survived combat at Antietam in September 1862, was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in December 1862, and mustered out with his Company in June 1863. He was a life-long newspaperman and publisher… continue reading
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21K milestone
I’ve been spending more time than I used to with each soldier I enter into the database, so it’s taken almost two years to add the last thousand. There are now just over 21,000 people-pages on Antietam on the Web.… continue reading
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Explosion of the steamer Senator #2 (1864)
Sharpsburg veteran Private Sanford A Walker of the 5th Alabama Infantry was returning from a furlough home in October 1864 aboard the steamboat Senator #2, on the Alabama River, when her boiler exploded. He drowned attempting to swim away from… continue reading
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Capt W R DeLoach (c. 1900)
William R DeLoach was a Private in Company G, 5th Alabama Infantry when he was wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. He was a staff officer late in the war and survived a stint as a prisoner at Johnson’s… continue reading
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James Basset, 5th Alabama veteran (1921)
Retired miller James Basset, late Private, Company F, 5th Alabama Infantry responded to the 1921 Alabama Census of Confederate Veterans in the following questionnaire, full of excellent personal details (touch images to enlarge). He had been twice captured during the… continue reading
