Posts by Brian

[touch for the full article] Charles Wallace was the son of a prominent Atlanta businessman and politician, and first enlisted for war service in May 1861 with the First Georgia…

Not-quite 19 year old farm boy John W Wesley enlisted at Decatur in DeKalb County, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Captain…

At Frederick, MD on 9 September 1862 Adam J. Alexander of the 10th Louisiana Infantry signed this receipt for 3 pairs of shoes, 4 shirts, and 4 pairs of drawers…

This excellent reference is clipped from the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 17 December 1862, and was kindly supplied by Greyson Beardsley. It is a list of Confederate soldiers from Louisiana…

Lieutenant Alexander H Pickett, Adjutant of the 3rd Alabama Infantry submitted this request and signed for receipt of a new battle flag and staff on 5 April 1863. It appears…

On 19 August 1864 the Confederate Conscription Bureau in Richmond, VA sent a notice to the Army's Adjutant General that Private J.H. Garrison was considered a deserter from Company B…

Son of a prosperous planter, John N Henderson was 18 years old in July 1861 when he enlisted as a Private in Company E of the 5th Texas Infantry in…

From the Indianapolis Daily State Sentinel of 27 September 1862, a copy of Colonel William Harrow's Antietam after-action report and lists of casualties in the battle for his 14th and…

On this day before the 163rd anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, here's a look at the face of one of the soldiers who was there. He's William Tillotson, who…