A storekeeper and pre-war Mayor of Donaldsonville, Louisiana, Captain Victor A Maurin commanded the Donaldson Artillery on the Maryland Campaign. This photograph of him was published in Michael Marshall’s Gallant Creoles (2013), a history of the battery.

In a letter published in the New York Times in September 1863, Colonel Robert C. Hill discussed a conversation he had with Federal General George Custer near Fredericksburg, VA in August which had apparently been misconstrued. Colonel Hill commanded the 48th North Carolina Infantry in action around the Dunker Church at Sharpsburg in 1862. Sadly, the Colonel was quite ill by late 1863 and died in December.

This excellent photograph of the “gallant” John Pelham is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. A Captain at Sharpsburg, he commanded a battalion of horse artillery there. He died very young, killed at Kelly’s Ford, VA in March 1863, age 24.

This is an etching (from a photograph) of Colonel William Nelson from Jennings Cropper Wise’s The Long Arm of Lee; or, The History of the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia … (1915). As a Major, Nelson commanded a battalion of 5 artillery batteries in Maryland in 1862.

David Watson was Captain of the 2nd Company, Richmond Howitzers from April 1862, and led them on the Maryland Campaign. This portrait, from a photograph, shows him in a Major’s uniform and is with his Compiled Service Records at the National Archives. He was promoted to Major about January 1863 but was mortally wounded at Spotsylvania Court House, VA and died in May 1864.