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Here are a pair of interesting documents from Ransom Warren‘s Compiled Service Records at the US National Archives. I got my copies online from fold3.

The first is the parole he signed with his mark in Sharpsburg after his wounding there on 17 September 1862 and subsequent capture by Federal troops. He was a Private in Company E of the 23rd Virginia Infantry.

And this is his Confederate certificate of disability which followed from the loss of his right arm to amputation.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas Scott Michaels was detailed to recruit for his Company in the 23rd Virginia Infantry in February and March 1862. Here’s his announcement, clipped from the Richmond Dispatch of 7 March 1862. I found it online thanks to the Library of Virginia.

This extract from an Antietam hospital record is for Private William Randolph Cox of the 14th Indiana Infantry. “3^d Div, 2^d AC” refers to 3rd Division of the 2nd Army Corps, of which the 14th Indiana was a part, and their field hospital was located on the R. F. Kennedy farm on the west bank of Antietam Creek. The better-known Pry and Neikirk farms are nearby.

Big thanks to his great-great-grandson Matt Wynn for sending me that card and alerting me to Private Cox.