This is Corporal Joel E Ruland, Company I, 57th New York Infantry. He was killed in action at Antietam. His 1861 photograph was contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Elbert N. Carter.

Captain Frank V Winston, a lawyer from Louisa County, led the 13th Virginia Infantry at Sharpsburg. His photograph is in the collection of the Library of Congress.

Jean Reynaud Jacques Prosper Landry, known by Prosper, was 2nd Lieutenant of the Donaldsonville Louisiana Artillery on the Maryland Campaign, and had a narrow escape near Shepherdstown, VA on 20 September 1862. His photograph was published in Bob Grenier’s Central Florida’s Civil War Veterans (2014), the original contributed by Victor E. Smith III.

A storekeeper and pre-war Mayor of Donaldsonville, Louisiana, Captain Victor A Maurin commanded the Donaldson Artillery on the Maryland Campaign. This photograph of him was published in Michael Marshall’s Gallant Creoles (2013), a history of the battery.

In a letter published in the New York Times in September 1863, Colonel Robert C. Hill discussed a conversation he had with Federal General George Custer near Fredericksburg, VA in August which had apparently been misconstrued. Colonel Hill commanded the 48th North Carolina Infantry in action around the Dunker Church at Sharpsburg in 1862. Sadly, the Colonel was quite ill by late 1863 and died in December.