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Lt. Ellison, Antietam National Cemetery
or, yes, there is at least one Confederate in the cemetery On my recent visit to Sharpsburg I took photographs of several headstones in the Antietam National Cemetery, as is…
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The McAdoo (c. 1912)
Walter David McAdoo came from a long line of successful merchants and entrepreneurs in Greensboro, Guilford County, NC. He left Dickinson College in Pennsylvania at the start of the Civil…
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Shell fragment extracted from the sacrum
22 year old Private Charles A Trask of the 13th Massachusetts Infantry was mortally wounded in the lower abdomen by this chunk of iron at Antietam on 17 September 1862,…
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Lt. Henry G Bigelow (1863)
Henry Grove Bigelow was the 20 year old Sergeant Major of the 15th Massachusetts Infantry when he was seriously wounded at Antietam in September 1862, by a gunshot through his…
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Totally useless as an officer
Bold language is rare in military communications, so I thought I'd share this instance so both of my readers can enjoy it with me. It's a clipping from the back…