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This clip about Colonel Marcellus Douglass, late of the 13th Georgia Infantry, is from a lengthy Campaign narrative published on the front page of the Savannah Republican of 1 October 1862. The complete page is online courtesy of Georgia Historic Newspapers.

Thanks to Laura Elliot for the pointer to that piece. It was submitted from Shepherdstown, VA by correspondent “V.A.S.P.” – the initials of Virgil A.S. Parks, then First Lieutenant of Company D, 17th Georgia Infantry.

Thanks to Mike Brasher for finding and sharing this photograph of John Silas Mask of the 2nd Mississippi Infantry. It looks like it was taken just after he enlisted, probably in 1861.

Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Eugene Duryée led his regiment, the 2nd Maryland Infantry, in their attack on the Lower Bridge (Rohrbach’s, later Burnside’s) at Antietam on 17 September 1862. That was the highlight of his military career – he resigned his commission a few days later, probably to avoid the new Colonel, soon to arrive.

Here he is about 36 years later, in 1898, soon after his grandson Harvey Hoag Duryée, Jr. was born. That’s Junior in the middle, Jacob standing behind, Jacob’s mother Caroline E Allen Duryée (1820-1905), and his son Harvey Hoag Duryée (1871-1924). Sadly, little Harvey died at age 9 in 1907.

This lovely photograph was contributed to Findagrave by Kent Duryee. Thanks to Kent, also, for catching my error with Junior’s first name and for helping date the photograph:

Harvey Jr. was born on December 3, 1897, and he looks much older than one month, so the picture had to have been taken in 1898. Also, Jacob and his son Harvey and their families moved from New York to Los Angeles in late 1898. Caroline, Jacob’s mother who is in the picture on the left, remained in New York.