Private William Hollander, Company F, 4th Texas Infantry was severely wounded at Sharpsburg in September 1862 and discharged for wounds the following May. For 20 years afterward he was a farmer in Hays County, Texas, until, according to family information, he was killed on a cattle drive in April 1883.

He left a widow, Martha Ann (“M.A. Hollander”), and 6 children from 6 to 18 years old. He’d thought to buy life insurance, which must have helped …

This is clipped from the Fort Worth Daily Gazette of 21 July 1883, online from The Portal to Texas History.

The Crocketts in the 1890s in a photograph by Nathan Miles Wilcox (1845-1936), Georgetown, TX. Edward R. Crockett was captured in action at Sharpsburg in September 1862 while Corporal, Company F, 4th Texas Infantry.

That’s his wife Agnes Mercer (1841-1920) to his left and the youngest boys of their 13 children – Roy Hassell Crockett (1879-1950) and Cecil Leslie Crockett (1885-1964).

Here he is, a little closer:

The photograph is in the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

This piece in the Waco Daily Examiner of 8 November 1887 [online from the Portal to Texas History] features an interview with Waco, TX merchant P.M. Ripley. Ripley was formerly First Sergeant of Company E of the 4th Texas Infantry and survived wounds at Second Manassas and Sharpsburg during the war.

His store in Waco can be seen (as #14) on an 1886 birds-eye-view map of the city [from the Library of Congress] seen in a previous post here on behind AotW.

[click to read the whole piece]

The greed alluded to was that of the Novelty Iron Works of Dubuque, IA. See more about them from the Encyclopedia Dubuque.

This lovely bird’s-eye-view map was produced by Beck & Pauli, lithographers in Milwaukee, WI, and is online from the Library of Congress. Use their excellent interface if you’d like to really zoom in. The original has yellowed quite a bit – I’ve adjusted the color.

On Eighth Street, labeled #21 (circled), is the Lehman House – a boarding house and hotel run by Sharpsburg survivor Joe Lehman. He also operated Joe Lehman’s Ice Cream Parlor & Restaurant on Fourth Street.

German-born Lehman was a baker in Waco before the war and was a Private in the 4th Texas when he was wounded at Sharpsburg in 1862. He afterward lost his left arm to amputation at the shoulder, and he finally returned home in June 1863.

Private Michael Sullivan was terribly wounded by 5 bullets at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and despite attentive care, suffered for about 7 months before he died of massive infection and other effects of his wounds.

This image is of page 185 in Volume 2, Part 3 of US Army Surgeon General J.K. Barnes’ Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (MSHWR, 1870-88). All 6 books of the MSHWR are online thanks to the National Library of Medicine at NIH in Bethesda, MD.