This is a clipping from the Wilmington, NC Weekly Star of 27 March 1896 describing the death of Captain John L. Litchfield, Company L, 7th South Carolina Infantry in September 1862 and the return of his effects to the family all those years later.

Here’s a beautiful illustration of the Mount Pleasant Hospital in Washington, DC from the Library of Congress. Its a hand-colored lithograph produced by Julian Carl “Charles” Magnus (1826-1900) in about 1862. Magnus was a prolific print publisher, map dealer, bookseller and stationer in New York City.

Scots-born 44 year old Baltimore bricklayer William H Burns enlisted in the 5th Maryland Infantry in October 1861 and was mortally wounded at Antietam in September 1862. He died at the Mount Pleasant Hospital on 24 October. The poetic clip is from his death notice in the Baltimore Sun of 27 October 1862.

John Henry Huiet enlisted in Company M of the 7th South Carolina Infantry in April 1861 and was First Sergeant when he was wounded at Sharpsburg in September 1862. He was later commissioned 2nd Lieutenant and survived the war to become a successful businessman in South Carolina.

His photograph was contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Debbie Allmon, and overlays his obituary in the Henderson, NC French Broad Hustler of 12 April 1917, page 8, online from the Library of Congress.

The stone of 28 year old farmer William F. Harris, a Private in the 7th South Carolina Infantry.

He was a recent recruit who enlisted in August 1862 and saw his first combat in Maryland. He was mortally wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September and died at home a little over two weeks later.

There’s quite a story behind “wounded seven times” noted on his stone, no doubt.

Let me know if you have any details, won’t you please?

Pictured are Lieutenant William E Clark and 3 of his 6 Strother brothers-in-law (George, John, and Richard), probably taken shortly after he and at least 2 of them enrolled in Company G of the 7th South Carolina Infantry in April 1861. In September 1862, by then Captain of the Company, Clark was mortally wounded at Sharpsburg. He died in Clarksburg, VA (now WV) on the 22nd. The photograph was shared to the Family Search database by Casey Clark [free membership required].