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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.

This is Sharpsburg veteran DeWitt Clinton Wellen, late of the 31st Virginia Infantry, seen here many years later. His photograph kindly shared to his Find-a-grave memorial by descendant Darrell Groves.