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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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Crampton’s Gap casualty list, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Appended to Colonel Cake’s official report as printed on page 2 of the Pottsville (PA) Miner’s Journal of Saturday, 4 October 1862, is his list of the men of his 96th Pennsylvania Infantry who were killed or wounded in the fight at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862. It’s not found in the Official Records in company with the Colonel’s report.




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My transcription of the text and links to the individual soldiers’ pages on AotW, after the jump …

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Maryes in Maryland

Here's Lieutenant Edward A. Marye's (probably pronounced "Mary") family home in Fredericksburg, VA as it looked in May 1864, then in use as a Union military hospital for troops wounded…