Month: January 2024

Private Philip Henry Foster of the ill-fated 16th Connecticut Infantry was killed by a bullet to the chest at Antietam on 17 September 1862. This photograph, probably taken in July…

This stunning portrait of Major Peter Fayssoux Stevens (1830 - 1910), Superintendent of the South Carolina Military Academy - the Citadel - was painted by his granddaughter Grace Annette DuPré…

This is Michigan farm boy Francis E. King, probably in about 1858 when he was 15 years old. At age 19, in August 1862, he enlisted as a Private in…

Charles Urquhart Williams was a staff officer to Brigadier General David R Jones at Sharpsburg in 1862 and after Jones' death in January 1863 was with Brigadier General Montgomery D…

Private James Burke of Company D, 27th Indiana Infantry was wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862. Here he is perhaps 25 years later, about the time he began receiving…