We’ve just passed another milestone in the collection of Campaign participants at Antietam on the Web – now over 23,000 individuals in the database.
#23,000 is Private Clay Esshom of Company A, 14th Indiana Infantry, who survived a fearful gunshot through his body in combat at Antietam on 17 September 1862 – then a month shy of his 20th birthday. He was afterward a successful farmer and stockman near his boyhood home in Monroe County, Iowa to his death at age 59 in 1902.
Here’s his simple stone in Lovilia, IA; Findagrave photo thanks to the late Pat Kiser.
