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First Sergeant W.H. Andrews at Sharpsburg
Our rations were out Sunday. Monday and Tuesday we had nothing but water ... Just about sunset, a cow came feeding in front of our lines. Gen. [G.T.] Anderson ordered…
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An English saddle in wartime Richmond
Behold a receipt for an English Saddle & Equipments purchased by Sharpsburg veteran Major, soon to be Lieutenant Colonel Henry A Rogers of the 13th North Carolina Infantry in Richmond,…
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The 13th Alabama Infantry in Maryland, in detail
Private “Mage” Allen, Company H [Alabama Archives]
I’ve just completed a thorough scrub through the military and other records of the men of the 13th Alabama Infantry regiment, and extracted service and personal details for those who were present on the Maryland Campaign of September 1862.
Following is some interesting information that comes from that collection of data.
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Savage shoes
This from the Terrell, Texas Register by way of the of Fairfield Recorder of 28 August 1896. I've not found who "old Hannah" was, but Joe Savage was a Sharpsburg…