This is photograph of George A Hitchcock, late Private, 21st Massachusetts Infantry, Antietam veteran and Andersonville survivor. Probably taken about 1868, it was contributed to the Family Search genealogical database by Julie Munsterman [free membership required for access]. Here he… continue reading

This painting by Antietam veteran James Madison Stone, late Corporal, 21st Massachusetts, was exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. In 2010 it was sold at auction by Skinner for $4148. It’s asking price in 1893 was… continue reading

Sergeant John Kelt was wounded at Antietam in September 1862 and commissioned a Lieutenant later that year, but was court-martialled and dismissed from the service in mid-1863. He was one of at least two officers of the 21st Massachusetts Infantry… continue reading

The Memorandum from Prisoner of War Records form was used by US War Department clerks to compile information from various records relating to a soldier’s time as a prisoner during the Civil War. This one is for Private Thomas Farrell… continue reading

This young officer is Jonas R. Davis, First Lieutenant, Company B, 21st Massachusetts Infantry in a photograph probably taken in early 1864. He was Company A’s 3rd Sergeant when he was wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862. An interesting… continue reading

Here, in a pair of photographs from Vol. 95, page 4876 of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS-Mass) photograph collection, is James Oliver, June 1862 graduate of the Harvard Medical… continue reading