Sharpsburg Veteran and former Texas Ranger Hiram B. Rogers was a farmer near Chalk Mountain, Texas by 1900 and was still farming there at age 80 in 1920. Chalk Mountain is on the somewhat flexible border between Erath and Somervell Counties, so Rogers appears in both counties in various Census records.

Chalk Mountain was always a tiny town, never exceeding 100 residents, and is now a “ghost town.” Here’s it is on a map in 1920 (from the Texas Land Office), online from Texas Escapes.

Here’s a strong looking Hiram at about age 85 at his home at Chalk Mountain, with grandson Alton McKnight Rogers (1921-1943, polio), who was born there. The photograph was contributed to his Find-a-grave memorial by Hiram’s great-great granddaughter Patricia S.

Private Thomas W Watson, Company D, 4th Texas Infantry survived combat on South Mountain and at Sharpsburg in Maryland in 1862, but was felled by typhoid bacilli in a hospital near Atlanta, GA in December 1863. His nurse Kate Cummings (1835-1909) noted his passing in her journal.

This is page 116 of A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee which she published in 1866. Thankfully, the complete volume is online from the US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.

Here’s Nurse Cumming sometime after the war from the frontpiece of her memoir Gleanings from Southland (1885), also online, from the Internet Archives.

Corporal Secor of the 2nd Vermont Infantry was mortally wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died in a field hospital on the O.J. Smith farm the next day. This tintype, probably taken soon after he enlisted in May 1861, is in the collection of the Vermont Historical Society, and is online thanks to Tom Ledoux.

A lifelong farmer, William Henry McClaugherty was First Sergeant of Company D, 4th Texas Infantry and was in action with them in Maryland in September 1862. He survived a disabling leg wound in the Wilderness in May 1864, by then First Lieutenant, and went home to his farm in Seguin, TX in 1865.

In November 1874 he applied for a patent for Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers, which was granted in February 1875. This patent drawing and accompanying description are online thanks to the Portal to Texas History from the University of North Texas Libraries.

Maryland-born Captain Allen Howard Zacharias of the 7th Michigan Infantry was mortally wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died surrounded by family at Hagerstown in December. This pre-war photograph was contributed to his Find-a-grave memorial by user Marsteka. Many thanks to J.O. Smith for the pointer to that.

Zacharias had written his own obituary earlier in 1862, and he was carrying it when he was hit at Antietam. While lying on the field he also wrote a last letter home. These, and the circumstances of his death, are detailed below from The Red Book of Michigan: A Civil, Military and Biographical History (1872), which is online thanks to the University of Michigan.