This is First Sergeant Joseph P “Little Joe” Johnson of Company C, 15th Massachuysetts Infantry, possibly in his pre-war militia uniform. He was mortally wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died in a Washington, DC hospital on 4 October. His photograph is from Susan Harnwell on her superb 15th Massachusetts Infantry website.

A severely damaged painted portrait of Captain Thomas A Baber, Jr. He commanded Company E of the 5th Texas Infantry and was wounded at Sharpsburg. Picture posted to his Findagrave memorial by Warren S. Balkcom.

From The Philadelphia Inquirer of 3 October 1862: the parole of Adjutant James P. Perot and 95 other members of his regiment who were captured in the fight at Boteler’s Ford near Shepherdstown, VA on 20 September 1862.

Doctor Jones was Assistant Surgeon of the 4th Texas Infantry at Sharpsburg. He married Mary Kennon Crisp in 1867. His picture c. 1900 from the Confederate Veteran (Vol. 12, May 1904); hers c. 1870 from the journal The Junior Historian (Austin, TX; Vol. 22, September 1961).

Moonlight Scene of Lighthouse and Fort on Point de Galle, Ceylon.

In the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, England. Watercolor c. 1855 by Royal Navy Captain Harry Edmund Edgell, then commanding HMS Tribune.

Point DeGalle was the birthplace in 1837 of Lieutenant Frank L Price, Adjutant of the 4th Texas Infantry at Sharpsburg.