Battlefields revisited
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In an article in the National Tribune of 13 October 1892 [pdf] a veteran of the 45th Pennsylvania Infantry wrote to his comrades of his weekend visit to the battlefields on South Mountain and at Sharpsburg, MD 30 years after… continue reading
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Robert Shaw, Newlin, NC
34 year old farmer Robert Shaw was conscripted into the Confederate Army at Raleigh in July 1862 and assigned to Company B of the First North Carolina Infantry. He was seriously wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured… continue reading
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USS Despatch (1873-1891)
USS Despatch, the third US Navy ship of the name, was formerly the screw steamer America, purchased by the Navy in 1873. She sailed 20 April 1877 for the eastern Mediterranean and a special assignment with the U.S. Embassy at… continue reading
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Pvt William R. Barlow (1862)
William Rufus Barlow was conscripted into Confederate service in August 1862 and assigned as a Private to Company B of the 18th North Carolina Infantry. He was slightly wounded in his first action, at Sharpsburg in September 1862, and was… continue reading
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Attention, Meagher Guard! (1853)
I’m exploring another Irish unit today – Company K of the First South Carolina Infantry (McCreary’s). Formed in June 1861 as the Irish Volunteers for the War, they came largely from a pre-war militia company organized in Charleston in about… continue reading
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USS Vanderbilt (c. 1862)
Private John Henry Libben did not impress his commanding officer at Antietam. Lieutenant Peter C Hains later wrote of his battery, “M” of the 2nd United States Artillery: All the men of the company behaved with their accustomed coolness and… continue reading
