This is Francis Alexander “Frank” Shuford, late of the 4th North Carolina Infantry, with his family almost 30 years after the Maryland Campaign of 1862, where he was made a prisoner of war. Left-to-right they are Alice Mabel, Frank, Carrie… continue reading

Private Robert J.M. Barber of Company B, 4th North Carolina Infantry was twice captured during the war: at Frederick on the 1862 Maryland Campaign and in 1864 at Winchester, VA. After his release in February 1865 he returned home to… continue reading

This clipping from an unknown Iowa newspaper announces the unfortunate death in August 1880 of Antietam veteran Stephen Decatur Cagwin, late Private in the 89th New York Infantry. Big thanks to Jim Smith for forwarding this from Cagwin’s descendants. continue reading

This is James C Steele of Statesville, NC, formerly Musician in the 4th North Carolina Infantry band and a veteran of the Maryland Campaign of 1862. This picture is from his 1921 book Sketches of the Civil War, online thanks… continue reading

Mrs. W.E. Coleman of Richmond, VA applied to the United States War Department for a Government headstone for Issac Abner Cowan, late of the 4th North Carolina Infantry, in October 1941. He was a Sharpsburg veteran who had died on… continue reading

This fine hand-tinted photograph of Bryan Grimes, Colonel of the 4th North Carolina Infantry at Sharpsburg, is from the North Carolina Photographic Archives at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. It was shared online in company with an excellent… continue reading