I started a discussion forum/group on Yahoo in April 2001 called TalkAntietam. While never a high volume operation, it has been a place for a wide range of experts and enthusiasts to share information about the battle.

It’s probably not a big deal, as most people now use social and other media rather than email for this kind of discussion, but it’s a little sad that the group is going away.

John R Rankin was a 19 years old Private at the battle of Antietam, and later wrote an excellent memoir about it. It’s now at the Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis. Here he is on a page from E.R. Brown’s The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion (1899).

Private Lucius H. Briggs was a printer on the Webster Times, Webster, Massachusetts when the war began. He enlisted in the 15th Massachusetts in May 1861 but was killed at Antietam on 17 September 1862. His photograph hosted online by Susan Harnwell.

Sergeant Arminius S. Round of the 34th New York Infantry was wounded at Antietam in two places – by a gunshot to his shoulder and canister ball through his leg. He survived Antietam and had later war service with 2nd New York Heavy Artillery, mustering out as a Captain in September 1865. The photograph here of Arminius and his wife Helen is from the Chapman Brothers’ Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois (1885).

Corporal Henry D Evans of Avon, CT was killed at Antietam while a member of Company I of the 16th Connecticut Infantry. His photo from John Banks who acquired it from a descendent of Henry.