a companion to Antietam on the Web
Born in Germany, Johann Charles Bitterling lived in East Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe), PA before the war and enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant of Company F, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves in May 1861. He was killed in action at Turner’s Gap on South Mountain in Maryland on 14 September 1862. His photograph (of unknown provenance) is from a post by Ronald Rabenold on Cultured Carbon County.
2nd Lieutenant Samuel Jones Cloyd of the 12th Pennsylvania Reserves was seriously wounded at Antietam and lost his right arm to amputation soon after. He returned to his hometown, married late at age 56, had 4 sons, and died where he was born, in Orbisonia in Huntington County, PA at age 91 in 1925. This clipping from the Altoona Tribune of 21 March 1925 notes that he was the oldest man in the county at his death.
This page from Martin D. Hardin’s Twelfth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps … (1890) describes the accidental death of Richard M Gustin in Elmira, NY in 1877. He was then 49 years old.
In 1860 he was a photographer – “Daguerrean Artist” – in Troy, Bradford County, PA. By June 1861 he was Captain of Company C of the 12th Pennsylvania Reserves, and he commanded the regiment as senior officer at Antietam. He was the Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment at muster-out in June 1864 and was brevetted Colonel in March 1865.
His photograph in Lieutenant Colonel’s uniform is from the frontpiece of Hardin’s history, which is online from the Internet Archive.
Captain Evans Rice Brady was killed in action at Turner’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 while commanding Company K of the 11th Pennsylvania Reserves. He’s pictured here with his father and grandfather, on a page from William G. Murdock’s Brady Family Reunion and Fragments of Brady History and Biography (1909), online from the Internet Archives.
Here’s a pair of before-and-after photographs of Daniel Kistler, Jr. on a page in From Burg of Greene in Pictures Seen (1927), online from the University of Pittsburgh. Kistler, from Greenburg, PA and Captain of Company H, 11th Pennsylvania Reserves, was captured at Gaines’ Mill, VA in June 1862 and held at Libby Prison in Richmond, VA until exchanged in August.
Very soon afterward, on 17 September, he was mortally wounded in action at Antietam. He died on the 28th.