Lieutenant John Thomas Parker led Company A of the 12th South Carolina Infantry in action at Sharpsburg in September 1862. After the war he practiced medicine in South Carolina, Mississippi, and finally Texas, married 3 times (in 1866, 1881, and 1895), and had at least 4 children.

He’s pictured here with his granddaughters Elsie (9) and Anna May Word (12) in a photograph shared to the Family Search database by Jerry & Tammy Van Cleve [free membership required].

18 year old First Sergeant John A Rosborough, Company C, 12th South Carolina Infantry was twice wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. Here’s a photograph of him from long after the war, probably taken while he was a member of the Florida state legislature. It was contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Sonya Eason.

William Elias James, Jr was Sergeant, Company F, 8th South Carolina Infantry when he was wounded at Sharpsburg. By the end of the war he was First Lieutenant. Here are two views of him. On the right is his photograph from the Darlington County Historical Commission and Museum. The picture on the left is from a poster display that appears to be a paste-up of his head from the other photograph superimposed on a person in civilian clothes (from his Findagrave memorial, contributed by Bob Jones).

George C Magure was only 15 years old when he witnessed the battle of Antietam as an assistant to the regimental surgeons at a field hospital there. He’d come along on the Campaign with his brother-in-law Major Salome Marsh of the 5th Maryland Infantry. The partial album page here was posted to the Geni database by Charles William Schwartz [free membership required].

James Knox Polk Racine, called Polk, was an 18 year old Corporal in the 5th Maryland Infantry at Antietam in September 1862. He learned to read and write during the war and was a later an author and wrote for local papers around his home in Elkton, MD. He published Recollections of a Veteran or Four Years in Dixie in 1894.

This is a clipping from his column in the Cecil Whig of 24 September 1898.