From the New Orleans Daily Picayune of 29 October 1862, online from Newspapers.com, casualties among the troops of the 16th Mississippi Infantry at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862: I’ve looked

Continue ReadingList of casualties in the Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment (1862)

Captain Eugene A. Hawkins, Colonel William H. Willis, and Captain Howard Tinsley of 4th Georgia Infantry Regiment in uniform: a photograph in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs

Continue ReadingOfficers of the 4th Georgia Infantry (1863)

Portrait paintings of Richard Henry Rush (1825 – 1893) and his wife Susan Bowdoin Yerby (1829-1889) done about 2 years after their marriage in Baltimore. The Rush family had been

Continue ReadingMr & Mrs Richard Henry Rush (1857)

James Gardner took this photograph at Brandy Station, VA in December 1863. The men in it are identified (left to right) as: Captain Samuel A McClellan(d) – Battery G, First

Continue ReadingOfficers of the Artillery Brigade, 3d Corps, and Alfred R. Waud, artist correspondent (1863)

Emory Upton graduated 8th in the May class of 1861 from the US Military Academy at West Point and was immediately at war. And he was very good at it.

Continue ReadingThe overworked brain of Emory Upton