No, Sergeant Richard H Skinner of the 4th Texas Infantry did not lie on the field at Gettysburg, PA for 17 days without medical attention. Nor did he “remain three months hovering between life and death” afterward. He was badly… continue reading

Here’s the relatively modern government marker in Prospect Cemetery in Morgan County, GA for Sharpsburg veteran Absalom R. Jones. He was a Private in Company F (wrong on the stone), 4th Texas Infantry until October 1864, then a “galvanized Yankee”… continue reading

Robert Weakley Brahan was born into a prominent Nashville, TN family in 1811, trained as a physician, married well, and had all the right friends, among them, apparently, President Andrew Jackson. After a decade in Panola County, MS, he took… continue reading

Sharpsburg Veteran and former Texas Ranger Hiram B. Rogers was a farmer near Chalk Mountain, Texas by 1900 and was still farming there at age 80 in 1920. Chalk Mountain is on the somewhat flexible border between Erath and Somervell… continue reading

Private Thomas W Watson, Company D, 4th Texas Infantry survived combat on South Mountain and at Sharpsburg in Maryland in 1862, but was felled by typhoid bacilli in a hospital near Atlanta, GA in December 1863. His nurse Kate Cummings… continue reading

Corporal Secor of the 2nd Vermont Infantry was mortally wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died in a field hospital on the O.J. Smith farm the next day. This tintype, probably taken soon after he enlisted in May… continue reading