A lifelong farmer, William Henry McClaugherty was First Sergeant of Company D, 4th Texas Infantry and was in action with them in Maryland in September 1862. He survived a disabling leg wound in the Wilderness in May 1864, by then… continue reading

Maryland-born Captain Allen Howard Zacharias of the 7th Michigan Infantry was mortally wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died surrounded by family at Hagerstown in December. This pre-war photograph was contributed to his Find-a-grave memorial by user Marsteka.… continue reading

Another Sharpsburg veteran who was a post-war Texas state legislator, this is William Henry Burges, Jr. in about 1880, in a photograph shared online in several places by family genealogists. He’s in this composite photograph of the Texas State Senate… continue reading

Here’s the top of a card for William C. Steele from his United States Mexican War Service Records, US National Archives (poke it to see the whole thing). Steele had later service as a Sergeant in the 4th Texas Infantry… continue reading

Here’s newly elected Texas State Representative Burlington Wesley Rimes in 1873. His picture, probably from a collective composite of all the members of that legislature, is in the Lawrence T. Jones III Collection, Southern Methodist University. Rimes was a Private… continue reading

Lieutenant Middleton L. Livingston was in action with Company C, 4th Texas Infantry in Maryland in 1862. He had been a physician in Milam County before the war and was a farmer there for most of the rest of his… continue reading