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This fine Brady portrait photograph of the General and his wife is in the Library of Congress. A career US Army officer, West Point ’39, Brigadier General James B Ricketts commanded the 2nd Division in the First Army Corps at Antietam. He was injured there when his horse fell on him, but remained with his…

Brigadier General Fitzhugh Lee (nephew of R.E. Lee) commanded a Brigade of Cavalry on the 1862 Maryland Campaign. This carte-de-visite of him is in the collection of the Library of Congress.

Brigadier General Albion P Howe was in command of a Brigade in the Fourth Army Corps in Maryland in 1862. He’s seen toward the left, hand on sword hilt, in this photograph of the members of the Military Commission to Try the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators in May 1865. The voting members of the Commission were…

Captain Merrill T Castleberry, 21st Georgia Infantry was terribly wounded at Sharpsburg, by a gunshot that entered his mouth and went out the back of his head. He was not expected to survive. His beautiful 1890 stone, pictured here, is notable for its handcut and slightly uneven Roman letters.

Twenty year old Private William A Collins of the 48th North Carolina Infantry wrote home to his family in Statesville from Richmond, VA where he was being treated for a wound received at Sharpsburg the month before. He thought he would get better but sadly did not. He died in the hospital on 14 December.

Walter M. “Watt” Bryson was fresh out of medical school at the start of the war and by April 1862 was Captain of Company G of the 35th North Carolina Infantry. He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September, and George Mills, his slave/body servant, got his body home for burial. 60 years…