A storekeeper and pre-war Mayor of Donaldsonville, Louisiana, Captain Victor A Maurin commanded the Donaldson Artillery on the Maryland Campaign. This photograph of him was published in Michael Marshall’s Gallant Creoles (2013), a history of the battery. continue reading

In a letter published in the New York Times in September 1863, Colonel Robert C. Hill discussed a conversation he had with Federal General George Custer near Fredericksburg, VA in August which had apparently been misconstrued. Colonel Hill commanded the… continue reading

This excellent photograph of the “gallant” John Pelham is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. A Captain at Sharpsburg, he commanded a battalion of horse artillery there. He died very young, killed at Kelly’s Ford,… continue reading

This is an etching (from a photograph) of Colonel William Nelson from Jennings Cropper Wise’s The Long Arm of Lee; or, The History of the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia … (1915). As a Major, Nelson commanded a… continue reading

David Watson was Captain of the 2nd Company, Richmond Howitzers from April 1862, and led them on the Maryland Campaign. This portrait, from a photograph, shows him in a Major’s uniform and is with his Compiled Service Records at the… continue reading

Private Robert C Cannon of Company G, 48th Alabama Infantry was killed in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862. He left a wife and 3 small children on the farm at Walnut Grove, AL. This photograph was contributed… continue reading