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Captain “Gib” Wright led Company D of Cobb’s Legion Cavalry Battalion and was wounded in action at Quebec Schoolhouse near Middletown, MD on 13 September 1862. He commanded a brigade by the end of the war and may have been appointed Brigadier General in January 1865. His photograph is in the collection of the Georgia Historical Society, and is online from fold3.
While looking into the cavalry action at Quebec Schoolhouse (near Middletown, MD 13 Sept 1862) and some men of the regiment, I noticed this plaque for the 3rd Indiana Cavalry on their monument on the Antietam Battlefield.
I’m sure this is news only to me, but it turns out that half of the regiment – the East “wing” or battalion – was with the Army of the Potomac and at Antietam. It consisted of Companies A through F and was commanded by Major George Chapman.
The West wing (Cos. G,H, I, & K) was in the Army of the Ohio and was in the vicinity of Perryville, KY in the fall of 1862, then under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Buchanan.
I think Major Chapman’s name should have been on that monument instead of Colonel Buchanan’s. What do you think?
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The 3rd Indiana Cavalry monument is online from the Antietam National Battlefield Park.
The 1863-64 photograph of (then) Colonel Chapman is from the Library of Congress.
Private Austin Martin, Jr. of the 8th Illinois Cavalry was mortally wounded in action somewhere in Maryland in September and died of his wounds on 14 October 1862 in a hospital in Frederick. He’s buried in Antietam National Cemetery. His photograph was contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Bruce Weirauch.
The Antietam Cemetery History has him as Daniel Mibbon, 18th New York Infantry (thanks Western Maryland’s Historical Library/WHILBR!). It’s Dan’l Mibbon, N.Y. on his stone.
Frederick hospital records list him as Daniel S. Milborne, 13th New York (thanks National Museum of Civil War Medicine!).
He doesn’t appear in the rosters for either of those regiments or any other New York unit, for that matter (thanks New York State Military Museum!). Nothing close.
A little more digging, though, and voilà !!
Under or near this stone in the Antietam National Cemetery lies David Spencer Milburn, late Private, Company D, 13th New Jersey Infantry. A 26 year old farmer, he was mortally wounded on 17 September 1862 just over a month after enlisting. He died in a hospital in Frederick on 2 October.
I hope his descendants can still find him!
Lieutenant Colonel Levi Maish, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry was wounded by a gunshot to his right lung at Antietam. He survived that wound and another, at Chancellorsville in May 1863, and mustered out as Colonel of the regiment soon after. He served as a US Congressman from 1875 to 1891.
His picture in uniform from one kindly provided by Scott D Hann from his collection. The other photograph, from his time as a Congressman, was contributed to his memorial on Findagrave by A.W. Holtzapple.