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Sgt Warren returned to Philadelphia

Sergeant Joseph Warren of Company P, 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry was killed at Antietam on 17 September 1862, probably in the furious combat in the West Woods there that morning. He…
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The 13th Alabama Infantry in Maryland, in detail


Private “Mage” Allen, Company H [Alabama Archives]

I’ve just completed a thorough scrub through the military and other records of the men of the 13th Alabama Infantry regiment, and extracted service and personal details for those who were present on the Maryland Campaign of September 1862.

Following is some interesting information that comes from that collection of data.

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Savage shoes

This from the Terrell, Texas Register by way of the of Fairfield Recorder of 28 August 1896. I've not found who "old Hannah" was, but Joe Savage was a Sharpsburg…
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Henry Roger Jones: 4 in uniform

Here are some excellent photographs of Henry Roger Jones very kindly sent me by his great-great-granddaughter Deborah Burks. Henry was a 23 year old law student in Illinois in early…
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Richard C Simpson (c. 1859)

Here's the very image of pre-war South Carolina aristocracy: a young Richard Caspar Simpson, then about 20 years old, posing with his shotgun and hunting dog. He was oldest son…