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side notes

  • Col. Henry Fowler, 63nd NY

    These are Colonel Henry Fowler (left) and two other officers, unidentified, in a wartime photograph at the Library of Congress. Lieutenant Colonel Henry T Fowler led the 63rd New York Infantry, part of the famous Irish Brigade, at Antietam, where he was wounded in the arm.

  • Colonel Charles W Roberts

    This photograph of Colonel Charles W Roberts is in the collection of Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress. Roberts commanded the 2nd Maine Infantry on the Maryland Campaign.

  • Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H Barnes

    Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H Barnes led the 29th Massachusetts Infantry, part of the Irish Brigade, in their assault on the Sunken Lane at Antietam. His photograph is from a carte-de-visite (CDV) sold on ebay in 2016.

  • Colonel James McQuade

    Colonel James McQuade commanded the 14th New York Infantry at Antietam. This photograph is in the Library of Congress.

  • Henry Lawrence Eustis

    This postwar photograph is of Henry Lawrence Eustis, professor of engineering at Harvard’s Lawrence Scientific School (now School of Engineering and Applied Sciences – SEAS) from 1849 to 1862, and from 1864 to 1885. It’s online thanks to SEAS.

    A graduate of Harvard (1838) and first in his class at West Point (1842), Colonel Eustis commanded the 10th Massachusetts Infantry on the Maryland Campaign.