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Troup Artillery redux
Fellow researcher Laura Elliott sent me a couple of lovely news clippings with further detail about the Troup Artillery on the Maryland Campaign of 1862. The first piece is from…
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2,000 faces of Antietam
Antietam on the Web achieved a milestone today - we now can show you faces of 2,000 of the participants in the Battle of Antietam as they probably looked when…
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Surgeon’s Certificate, Corp Edmund Davis (1863)
Here's another excuse to show you Surgeon B. A. Vanderkieft's fabulous signature. In this case, on a certificate for Corporal Edmund Davis of the 35th Massachusetts Infantry, who suffered a…
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Death of Oliver P Forbes (1863)
First Sergeant Oliver Peter Forbes was seriously wounded in the thigh at Antietam on 17 September 1862, and his surgeon thought he'd recovered by the end of the year, but…
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Accident near Antietam (1863)
This item from the Frederick Examiner of 29 April 1863 is online thanks to Crossroads of War from the Catoctin Center for Regional Studies. My transcription: About 3 o'clock on…