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Raised a farmer, Adam Swartlander left a wife and 3 small children at home in Butler County near Pittsburgh, PA when he enlisted in July 1861 as a Private in…

I've occasionally found Confederate veterans of the Battle of Sharpsburg who were later captured but were released from prison by taking an oath and enlisting for United States Army service…

I came upon this photograph while looking into men of Colonel Evander McIver Law's brigade staff at Sharpsburg in September 1862: it's in the collection of the Valentine Museum in…

Looking into Captain William F Dement, commander of the First Maryland Artillery on the campaign of September 1862, I came upon this scrap of paper - a receipt for ammunition…

Franklin Gaillard, standing between his wife Catherine Cordes "Tattie" Porcher (1832-1856; m. 1853) and niece Catherine Marianne Gaillard (1835-1869). Front row: Franklin’s sisters, Lydia Henrietta (1831-1913), Elizabeth Octavia "Betsy" (1825-1908)…

William Riddle, from a prosperous and well-known Pittsburgh family, was 19 years old when he enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant of Company F of the 5th Pennsylvania Reserves in October 1861.…

or, yes, there is at least one Confederate in the cemetery On my recent visit to Sharpsburg I took photographs of several headstones in the Antietam National Cemetery, as is…

Walter David McAdoo came from a long line of successful merchants and entrepreneurs in Greensboro, Guilford County, NC. He left Dickinson College in Pennsylvania at the start of the Civil…

22 year old Private Charles A Trask of the 13th Massachusetts Infantry was mortally wounded in the lower abdomen by this chunk of iron at Antietam on 17 September 1862,…

Henry Grove Bigelow was the 20 year old Sergeant Major of the 15th Massachusetts Infantry when he was seriously wounded at Antietam in September 1862, by a gunshot through his…