Category: quickPost/Pix

side notes

  • Capt. Adolphe Libaire

    Captain Adolphe Libaire of the 9th New York Infantry was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery at Antietam. His picture here, probably an over-painted photograph, from one hosted by the USCIS Baltimore Field Office.

  • Pvt. Marcus M Haskell

    Private Marcus M Haskell was wounded at Antietam and later awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing another wounded man under fire. This cased photograph was hosted online by Historical Auctions accompanying a rifle of his they sold in December 2020.

  • Chief Charles F Cleveland

    17 year old Private Charles F Cleveland of the 26th New York Infantry was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery in carrying the colors at Antietam and was wounded there.

    His picture here is from 1899 when he was Chief of the Utica, NY Police Department. It’s from a Sketch of the Utica Police Force posted to Facebook by the Department in December 2020.

  • Federal signal station, Beaufort, SC

    A photograph from the Library of Congress of a signal station atop John G. Barnwell’s house in Beaufort, SC some time after 5 December 1861 when Federal troops occupied the town.

    There was more than one John G. Barnwell in Beaufort before the war, but this house probably belonged to Captain John Gibbes Barnwell who was Ordnance Officer to General Pendleton on the Maryland Campaign.

  • Lieutenant Colonel Robert F Hoke

    This carte de visite (CDV) of Robert F. Hoke wearing Lieutenant Colonel’s stars is in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at the University of North Carolina.

    Hoke commanded the 33rd North Carolina Infantry at Sharpsburg and was a Major General by the end of the war.