Here’s a clipping from the front page of the New Orleans Daily Picayune of 29 October 1862. The complete edition is online from Newspapers.com.

It’s a source of some casualty lists for units at Sharpsburg including the Washington Artillery of New Orleans. Listed among the wounded of the 3rd Company (battery) was Corporal P.W. Pettis. A 21 year old clerk in New Orleans, Peyton Watts Pettis enlisted as a Private in May 1861, returned to duty after Sharpsburg, and was a Sergeant at the end of the war.

Irish-born Private James Organ of Company E, 9th Louisiana Infantry was wounded and captured at Sharpsburg in September 1862. While on a detail in Richmond, VA he was involved in the Richmond “women’s bread riot” of 2 April 1863, and was charged with assault and robbery during the disorder. I don’t know the outcome of his trial, but he returned to his Company and was captured at Spotsylvania, VA on 12 May 1864 and died while a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD on 7 August 1864.

A summary of the Hustings Court actions – including Organ’s case – was published in the Richmond Daily Dispatch of 14 April, seen here. Obviously it was not purely a womens’ riot. That newspaper is online from the Library of Congress.

At Antietam in the late afternoon of 17 September 1862 the 30th Ohio Infantry was being flanked by troops of General A.P. Hill’s Division. Lieutenant Colonel Jones passed the order to fall back, but only the 4 rightmost Companies heard him. Colonel Ewing sent Lieutenant Reese R. Furbay to get the remaining 6 Companies, but before he could reach them …

Lieutenant Furbay, the memory of whose gallantry and worth is written in the hearts of his comrades, was shot, by three balls, through the body.

This is his stone in the family cemetery in Georgetown, Ohio; photo by Findagrave user AncestorFinder.

This is probably the headstone in the Antietam National Cemetery for Corporal John O’Harra of Company G, 30th Ohio Infantry. He was mortally wounded at Fox’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and died nearby on 24 September 1862. The photo is by Findagrave user Birdman.

Captain Lewis R Stegman led Company E of the 102nd New York Infantry at Antietam, was wounded 4 times during the war, and mustered out as Major of the First US Veteran Volunteers in 1866. In 1912 he was appointed chairman of the New York Monuments Commission and presided over the dedication of the New York State monument at Antietam on 17 September 1920.

This carte-de-visite of him, probably taken in 1865, was posted to Findagrave by Larry Chenault, from his collection.