Lieutenant William Frances Smith of Company D, First Delaware infantry wrote home to his mother after Antietam. The letter, seen above, was recently sold by Museum Quality Americana and brought to my attention by John Banks. William Smith also kept a diary during the war, below, and that sold at auction in January 2020.

Private Basil Manly Stedman of the 48th North Carolina Infantry was mortally wounded and captured at Sharpsburg in September, and died in a Frederick, MD hospital on 19 October 1862. This announcement is from the Fayetteville Semi-Weekly Observer of 29 December 1862, online from newspapers.com.

All three sons in this family died in the War. His third brother, David, died at Bentonville, NC in April 1865.

Captain James Archbald led his Company, “I” of the 132nd Pennsylvania Infantry, in action at the Sunken Road – later called “Bloody Lane” at Antietam on 17 September 1862. Two days later he wrote a friend about it …

.. we were ordered forward to the crest of a hill [overlooking the sunken road] where we found the 108th New York; we walked over them, for they were lying down, with but few exceptions, firing from that position. Here we fought for four and a half hours, until we had fired 60 rounds and some of the cartridges of the dead and wounded.

Our bayonets were fixed for a charge upon the rifle-pits of the rebels and the corn-field occupied by them. Just at this point the Irish Brigade came to our relief and we were ordered to the rear …

His obituary is from the Scranton Tribune of 6 October 1910. His wartime picture, below, is from Hitchcock’s War from the Inside : the Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry … 1862-1863 (1904). Thanks to EJ Murphy for the pointer to Archbald via Twitter.

This is First Sergeant Joseph P “Little Joe” Johnson of Company C, 15th Massachuysetts Infantry, possibly in his pre-war militia uniform. He was mortally wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died in a Washington, DC hospital on 4 October. His photograph is from Susan Harnwell on her superb 15th Massachusetts Infantry website.

A severely damaged painted portrait of Captain Thomas A Baber, Jr. He commanded Company E of the 5th Texas Infantry and was wounded at Sharpsburg. Picture posted to his Findagrave memorial by Warren S. Balkcom.