behind AotW

William Crawford Smith was a Private in Company B of the 12 Virginia Infantry and was wounded at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, and captured nearby. He was Color Sergeant of the regiment by late 1863 and was wounded again, in the Wilderness, VA in 1864, but survived to be surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April 1865.

After the War he was a builder and architect in Nashville, TN. His most visible legacy is the re-created Parthenon in Nashville. It’s quite a sight.

[2011 photo by the author]

This well-dressed young man is George Washington Cox who was mortally wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 while a Private in the 23rd Georgia Infantry. He died in a US Army field hospital on the Line Farm near the battlefield before the end of September.

This photograph is courtesy of Roy Queen, from his collection.

Here’s 30 year old Haverford, Massachusetts shoemaker Andrew Jackson Gile just before the war. He was killed at Antietam on 17 September 1862 about a month after he enlisted as a Private in the 35th Massachusetts Infantry.

This photograph is from My Great-Grandmother Judith Sargent Gile 1804-1891 – a book in the family by Winifred Jewel Harley. Thanks to Kristin Laing for that!