digital history – behind AotW

Sgt Charles Broomhall at Antietam

Almost exactly 20 years ago Carolyn Ivanoff shared with me (and AotW) her research about and transcription of the wartime diary of Charles D. M. Broomhall, Sergeant in the 124th…

Brian 14 April 2024

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Dr. Lesley Gordon’s Roster, 16th Connecticut Infantry (2014)

While researching her 2014 book about the regiment, Dr Lesley Gordon compiled a roster after my own heart, including pre- and post-war details not usually found in military records. She…

Brian 6 February 2022

digital history

Huzzah! Hathi Trust

My favorite basic source for Louisiana troops is Andrew Bradford Booth's three volume set (in 7 books) of the Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands (1920). A…

Brian 5 March 2021

building AotW digital history

Clickable, annotated Elliot burial map now on AotW

In 1864, building on information collected by others, civil engineer Simon G. Elliott documented the locations of more than 5,800 soldiers' burials on the battlefield of Antietam on a map.…

Brian 7 October 2020

digital history

Charles F Williams, Jr and the MOLLUS Massachusetts Photograph Collection

This is Lieutenant Charles Frederick Williams, Jr. of the 35th Massachusetts Infantry. He was mortally wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and died…

Brian 24 March 2019