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Night on the battlefield, anxious morning
“We slept on the battle field last night,” Private Mike Hubbert of the Minutemen of Attala recorded in his diary Sept. 18, 1862. “It is very horrifying to hear the cries of the wounded who are all...
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Barksdale’s Report on Sharpsburg
HDQRS. BARKSDALE’S BRIGADE, ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, Camp Lee, Va., October 12, 1862. Major JAMES M. GOGGIN, Assistant Adjutant-General, McLaws’ Division. MAJOR…We reached…the neighborhood of...
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Buried on the battlefield
In 1906 a book was published in Ohio listing the names and locations of Confederates who were so badly wounded in the Maryland campaign that they were left on the battlefield by their departing...
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The Journey: On to Winchester
On Saturday, Sept. 27, 1862, the 13th marched 13 miles south along the Winchester Turnpike to within a mile of Bunker Hill where they camped. The next day, they moved again, marching 10 miles to camp...
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Taking a brother home
Neville Edmonds, captain of the Winston Guards, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Sharpsburg. After much suffering, the 28-year-old lawyer whose family owned 50 slaves, died at Winchester on Oct....
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Send clothing, food to our soldiers in Virginia
Many a Rebel, including some in the 13th Regiment, had been killed or wounded at the Battle of Sharpsburg, in Maryland in mid September, 1862, and the survivors, retreating back into Virginia near...
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The Bradley brothers at Gettysburg
The Civil War blog Battlefield Back Stories has a poignant tale of the Bradley brothers, John and George, who were killed at Gettysburg. Both had started out in the Winston Guards of Louisville,...
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