This is Corporal Joel E Ruland, Company I, 57th New York Infantry. He was killed in action at Antietam. His 1861 photograph was contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Elbert N. Carter.
Year: 2020
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Clickable, annotated Elliot burial map now on AotW
In 1864, building on information collected by others, civil engineer Simon G. Elliott documented the locations of more than 5,800 soldiers’ burials on the battlefield of Antietam on a map. His similar work for burials at Gettysburg has long been known, but a copy of his Antietam map lay largely unnoticed in the New York Public library for many years until library staff digitized the map and made it available online between 2015 and 2018.
In June 2020 Gettysburg researchers Tim Smith and Andrew Dalton were looking into Elliott, came upon this map, and brought it to the attention of other historians and the public.
I’ve broken my digital copy into 14 large segments, each covering about 1/2 square mile of the battlefield, to make it a little easier for you to explore and make sense of this huge map. They’re all now up on Antietam on the Web (AotW) in a special exhibit.
49 individual soldiers and 32 regiments are identified on the big map. I have highlighted each of them in white and linked them to related pages on AotW so you can get more information about them.
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Julius Rabardy loses his leg, lives a life
In his diary after the battle of Antietam Private Julius Rabardy wrote:
The air is full of explosions and the smell of brimstone, missiles of all kinds strike the trees and dead branches fall among the wounded. I was shot through the right thigh. A poor fellow with uplifted arm begs for water. The arm is shot off and the man speaks no more. A Confederate lies in front of me with a horrible wound. It is Hell. I close my eyes. It is probably from loss of blood, sick at the sight of such carnage. I became unconscious. When I recovered all is quiet.
The regimental surgeon amputated his leg later that day. He was not yet 30 years old and it would seem his best years were now behind him …
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Capt Frank V Winston
Captain Frank V Winston, a lawyer from Louisa County, led the 13th Virginia Infantry at Sharpsburg. His photograph is in the collection of the Library of Congress.
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Lt Prosper Landry
Jean Reynaud Jacques Prosper Landry, known by Prosper, was 2nd Lieutenant of the Donaldsonville Louisiana Artillery on the Maryland Campaign, and had a narrow escape near Shepherdstown, VA on 20 September 1862. His photograph was published in Bob Grenier’s Central Florida’s Civil War Veterans (2014), the original contributed by Victor E. Smith III.
