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side notes

  • Arrival of the prisoners of the Corn Exchange Regiment

    From The Philadelphia Inquirer of 3 October 1862: the parole of Adjutant James P. Perot and 95 other members of his regiment who were captured in the fight at Boteler’s Ford near Shepherdstown, VA on 20 September 1862.

  • Dr. John C. Jones and wife Mary

    Doctor Jones was Assistant Surgeon of the 4th Texas Infantry at Sharpsburg. He married Mary Kennon Crisp in 1867. His picture c. 1900 from the Confederate Veteran (Vol. 12, May 1904); hers c. 1870 from the journal The Junior Historian (Austin, TX; Vol. 22, September 1961).

  • Point DeGalle

    Moonlight Scene of Lighthouse and Fort on Point de Galle, Ceylon.

    In the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, England. Watercolor c. 1855 by Royal Navy Captain Harry Edmund Edgell, then commanding HMS Tribune.

    Point DeGalle was the birthplace in 1837 of Lieutenant Frank L Price, Adjutant of the 4th Texas Infantry at Sharpsburg.

  • Sgt Henry C Lyon

    Henry Lyon was mortally wounded by a gunshot through his lower spine at Antietam and died in a hospital in Frederick, MD on 5 October 1862. His photograph was published in Desolating this Fair Country: the Civil War diary and letters of Lt. Henry C. Lyon, 34th New York (McFarland, 1999) edited by Emily N. Radigan.

  • Confederate 2nd National

    Lieutenant William H Keiningham of the First Virginia Infantry was wounded at Fox’s Gap on 14 September 1862. Known as Pete or Peter, he carried a miniature version of the CS Second National flag in his pocket until it was taken from him when he was captured at Gettysburg. It was later returned to him and is now in the Museum of the Confederacy (White House of the Confederacy) in Richmond, VA.