Month: November 2024

Tompion: a plug pushed into the muzzle of a rifle to keep out dirt and water. This example, probably for an English-made Enfield model of 1853, made of brass and…

17 year old farm boy Thomas E Sims enlisted as a Private in the Orange Guards - Company G of the 27th North Carolina Infantry - in March 1862. Which…

In 1882 one-legged Sharpsburg veteran Willie Thomas Patterson was appointed Bursar of the University of North Carolina, and served in that post for most of the rest of his life,…

Samuel Hodgman was First Lieutenant of Company I of the 7th Michigan Infantry at Antietam on 17 September 1862. He was wounded in both legs there and spent more than two months in hospitals recovering.

He wrote his father Moses (1804-1881), back in Michigan, from the US Army General Hospital in West Philadelphia, PA on 17 November 1862 with the latest news, including the recent history and whereabouts of many of the men of his Company.

This is fabulous material. See a list of his men …

This stunning work is by William Sadler II (c. 1782—1839). His father, an English portrait painter and engraver, brought him to Ireland as a boy. William's son Rupert (c. 1810-1892), also…