Here’s Private Samuel Lee Johnston who enlisted a month after his 17th birthday as a Private in Company E – the Indian Land Tigers – 17th South Carolina Infantry in November 1861. Johnston’s is one of the few happy-ending stories… continue reading

Private Henry Jonathan Coleman, Jr was one of at least 8 Coleman brothers in Company B of the 17th South Carolina Infantry during the war. Four of them did not survive it. Henry was wounded at Turner’s Gap on South… continue reading

At the end of his life Henry Jerome, known as Pete, was “a man of mature years, short in stature, and of quiet demeanor.” He was born and raised in Connecticut, but married a South Carolina woman, had three children… continue reading

At the end of his after-action Report, above, Captain W.T. Poague listed the wounds the men of his battery suffered at Sharpsburg in September 1862. “I cannot avoid entertaining a feeling of pride in having the command of such men,”… continue reading

The last man on Colonel Edwards‘ casualty list for the 13th South Carolina Infantry (above) is not-yet 19 year old Private Jeremiah Wynn Morgan. He survived wounds at Sharpsburg and Gettysburg to go home, get married, and have 7 children,… continue reading

My current priority is to dig deeper to find soldiers killed on the Maryland Campaign of 1862 that I have missed in previous research. At the moment I’m using Confederate States Army Casualty Lists and Narrative Reports (RG 109, NARA),… continue reading