From the New Orleans Daily Picayune of 29 October 1862, online from Newspapers.com, casualties among the troops of the 16th Mississippi Infantry at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862:
I’ve looked into each of these names and improved the roster of men I have for the regiment in Maryland in 1862.
Officers of the 4th Georgia Infantry (1863)
29 March 2023
Captain Eugene A. Hawkins, Colonel William H. Willis, and Captain Howard Tinsley of 4th Georgia Infantry Regiment in uniform: a photograph in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress.
Hawkins was First Lieutenant of Company H in Maryland in 1862. Willis was then Captain of Company I and commanded the regiment at Sharpsburg after Major Smith was killed there on 17 September.
Howard Tinsley joined the regiment in December 1862 as regimental Quartermaster and was probably not in Maryland in September 1862, but his younger brother William Davies Tinsley (1836-1879), a Private in Company I, was wounded at Sharpsburg and afterward disabled for field service.
Mr & Mrs Richard Henry Rush (1857)
19 March 2023
Portrait paintings of Richard Henry Rush (1825 – 1893) and his wife Susan Bowdoin Yerby (1829-1889) done about 2 years after their marriage in Baltimore.
The Rush family had been prominent in Philadelphia since before the Revolution.
Richard was Colonel of his Lancers – the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry – from 1861 to 1864, and he led a 2 regiment brigade, his 6th and the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, on the Maryland Campaign of 1862.
Notes
Paintings by Thomas Sully (1783-1872).
A showing of Sully portraits, including Susan’s, was held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1922. Complete contents are found in the Catalogue (online from the Internet Archive).
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