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Private William Jasper Dillon, Company H, 4th North Carolina Infantry had just turned 17 when he was captured at Sharpsburg in September 1862. He was badly wounded at Cold Harbor in May 1864 but survived the war, and he’s seen here at about age 35 in a photograph shared by Jan Dillon to the Family Search database.

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.