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Andrew Streigel was a Sergeant with the 27th Indiana Infantry when was shot through the chest while bearing the national colors during the battle of Antietam on 17 September 1862. He survived that and two other wounds during the war to return to a farm near Jasper, IN. The clipping above is from the Jasper Weekly Courier of 7 April 1893, online from newspapers.com.

Here’s a photograph of the flag he carried at Antietam, restored in 2008 and on display at the Dubois County Museum in Jasper. Thanks to Michelle Striegel-Rice Snelling for that picture and the poke to look more closely at her great great grandfather.

This is Marcus Morton Parmenter, who enlisted as a Private in the First Company, Massachusetts Sharpshooters in March 1862. He was killed – possibly by “friendly fire” – at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

Thanks to Ralph Parmenter Bennett for the photograph, from one in the Shirley Massachusetts Historical Society.

Suzanne Farrar very kindly sent me these images of Mary Meggison (1830-1881) and John P. Chappell. They were married in Chambers County, AL in 1850 and were farming there by 1860. They had 6 children by 1861.

John was reported missing and presumed killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 while serving as a Private in the 14th Alabama Infantry.