20 year old John E Rowell and his 40 year old father William enlisted together as Privates in Company E of the 22nd South Carolina Infantry in early 1862. Young John was wounded at Turner’s Gap in September 1862 but went home at the end of the war. William died of wounds in April 1865.

This photograph of John and his wife Francis Isabella taken many years later was shared on Family Search [free membership required].

33 year old Corporal Algernon S Wallace enlisted as Corporal, Company B, 44th Alabama Infantry in March 1862 and was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September. He left a wife and 5 children on his large Bibb County farm. His heavily retouched photograph was posted to the Family Search database [free membership required] by family genealogists.

Here’s a picture of Daniel Lee Bozeman who enrolled in the new 44th Alabama Infantry in March 1862 as 2nd Lieutenant of Company A, and was with the regiment in action at Sharpsburg in September. Unfortunately he was mortally wounded at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 8 May 1864 and died there a week later. His photograph was contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Bob Atchison.

Private Hilliard J Askew enlisted as a Private in Company D of the 11th Alabama Infantry in June 1861. He was with his Company at Sharpsburg, was wounded at Gettysburg, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in November 1864, and survived the war. This photograph of him was contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Stanley A. Hutson.

Samuel Leroy Campbell, First Lieutenant of Company H, 18th South Carolina was shot through the head and left for dead near Turner’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862. He was found by locals two days later, blind but alive. He was exchanged in November 1862 and furloughed home.

This clipping from the Yorkville Enquirer of 2 October 1895 alludes to his post-war profession of pumping water for the trains at Clover, SC. In 1894 the newspaper had noted

he is not pumping by hand now. Of late he has come to the conclusion that the work is getting too hard for his advancing years, and he has procured a windmill. Now he sits about, whittles out puzzles and other objects that his ingenuity enables him to fashion from wood, talks with his friends, and makes it certain that the wind mill properly discharges the duty that he has imposed upon it.