Antietam veteran Henry H. Bowles, late of the 6th Maine Infantry, was a jeweler with a shop in Cherryfield, Maine for at least 40 years after the war. This 1896 bird’s-eye view of the town shows that shop on Main Street at #29. It’s from a print offered for sale by World Maps Online.

This magnificent portrait, probably a heavily tinted photograph, is of Sergeant Phelan Harris who carried the colors of the 8th Alabama Infantry at Sharpsburg, and was wounded in the action there. Found on Findagrave, its provenance is unknown.

This is Lieutenant Augustine H Ravesies, who was acting Adjutant of the 8th Alabama Infantry when he was wounded at Sharpsburg. His ambrotype was sold by Cowan’s Auctions.

Private William Kidd, Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry suffered grievous wounds to his face at Sharpsburg, but survived to go home to his family. Here he is with his daughter Addie Jane. You can see the face covering his wife made to hide the damage. The photograph kindly provided by his great-great-grandson Marshall Miller. The clipping is from the Muscatine (IA) Weekly Journal of 21 November 1862, from Laura Elliott.

Private William S Fitzsimmons of Company C, 8th Ohio Infantry was seriously wounded at Antietam. Afterward he studied the law and was admitted to the bar in Bucyrus in 1868, but died young in 1870, not yet 30 years old, at least in part due to the effects of his wound. His photograph provided by descendent Laura Phelps Rogers.