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The Antietam Journal, Volume 1

The Editor’s Column An Introduction to The Antietam Journal Kevin R. Pawlak . . . . . . 5 Antietam Institute Announcements. . 6 Feature Articles “Perceptions, not Realities…”: The Army of the Potomac in the Maryland Campaign Daniel J. Vermilya . . . . . 7 The Loudoun Valley Campaign of 1862 Matt Borders . . . . . . 51 Antietam Artifacts Private Charles L. Perry’s Identification Tag Joseph Stahl . . . . . . 88 In Antietam’s Footsteps From Fox’s Gap to Antietam National Cemetery, the 45th Pennsylvania Infantry J.O. Smith . . . . . . 91 Institute Interview Sitting Down with Rev. John Schildt Laura Marfut . . . . . . 94 Book Reviews . . . . . . 102 Contributor Biographies . .. . 106

Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 12)

One of 12 volumes

Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 11)

One of 12 volumes

Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 10)

One of 12 volumes

Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 9)

One of 12 volumes

Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 8)

One of 12 volumes

Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 7)

One of 12 volumes

Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 6)

One of 12 volumes

Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 5)

One of 12 volumes

Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 4)

One of 12 volumes

Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 3)

One of 12 volumes

Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 2)

One of 12 volumes

Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 1)

One of 12 volumes

Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.,from its establishment in 1802 (Volume 4, Supplement)

Volume 4, Supplement: updates records of 1802-1890 and adds graduates and officers of 1890-1900

Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.,from its establishment, in 1802, to 1890 (Volume 3)

Third edition, in 3 volumes

Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.,from its establishment, in 1802, to 1890 (Volume 2)

Third edition, in 3 volumes

Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.,from its establishment, in 1802, to 1890 (Volume 1)

Third edition, in 3 volumes

Souvenir of Excursion to Antietam and Dedication of Monuments of the 8th, 11th, 14th and 16th Regiments of Connecticut Volunteers

8th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 11th Connecticut Infantry Regiment , 14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment and 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The Story of a Confederate Boy in the Civil War

7th Virginia Infantry Regiment

The Long Roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863

9th New York Infantry Regiment

The Maryland Campaign and the Battle of Antietam

125th Pennsylvania Infantry

Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Nineteenth President of the United States (Volume 2)

5 volumes published: v. 1. 1834-1860.- v. 2. 1861-1865.- v. 3. 1865-1881.- v. 4. 1881-1893.- v. 5. 1891-1892

Joseph K. F. Mansfield, brigadier general of the U.S. Army. A narrative of events connected with his mortal wounding at Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862

Reminiscences of the Civil War

Colonel, 6th Alabama Infantry at Sharpsburg

The diary of a young officer serving with the armies of the United States during the war of the rebellion

71st New York State Militia, 57th New York Infantry Regiment

General Jacob Dolson Cox: early life and military services

Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865

Deeds of Valor: how America's heroes won the Medal of Honor (Volume 1)

Deeds of valor: how America's heroes won the Medal of Honor (Vol. 2)

Annual report of the Adjutant-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

The life of Lieutenant General Richard Heron Anderson of the Confederate States Army

Military Reminiscences of the Civil War

A poem read by Surgeon Nathan Mayer, October 11, 1894, at the dedication of a monument by the Sixteenth Connecticut where they fought at Antietam, September 17, 1862

Views of historic Antietam

The Battle of Sharpsburg--personal Incidents

Communication from the Governor transmitting a report of Mr. John Jay

The Antietam and its bridges, the annals of an historic stream

History of the Antietam National Cemetery, including a descriptive list of all the loyal soldiers buried therein: together with the ceremonies of Ancient, free and accepted Masons in laying the corner-stone of the soldier monument, September 17th, 1867. Written, illustrated and pub

In memoriam, Abner Doubleday, 1819-1893, and John Cleveland Robinson, 1817-1897

Historical register and dictionary of the United States Army : from its organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (Volume 1)

The Medical department of the United States army in the civil war

Second brigade of the Pennsylvania reserves at Antietam

32nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment 33d Regiment Pennsylvania infantry Regiment 36th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment 37th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment 128th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

Records of members of the Grand army of the republic, with a complete account of the twentieth national encampment ... A History of the growth, usefulness, and important events of te Grand army of the republic, from its origin to the present time

Mexican War veterans : a complete roster of the regular and volunteer troops in the war between the United States and Mexico, from 1846 to 1848 ; the volunteers are arranged by states, alphabetically

The memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion

Records of living officers of the United States army

The dark days of the Civil War, 1861 to 1865

15th Independent Battery, Indiana Light Artillery

Life and letters of Charles Russell Lowell, captain Sixth United States Cavalry, colonel Second Massachusetts Cavalry, brigadier-general United States Volunteers

2nd Massachusetts Cavalry

My days and nights on the battle-field

Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war

Memoirs of Rhode Island officers who were engaged in the service of their country during the great rebellion of the South. Illustrated with thirty-four portraits

Memorial of Henry Sanford Gansevoort, captain Fifth artillery ... colonel Thirteenth New York state volunteer calvary

Memorial address on life and character of Lieutenant General D. H. Hill, May 10th, 1893

A rebel of 61'

History of the United States Sanitary Commission, being the general report of its work during the war of the rebellion

United States Sanitary Commission

Incidents of the United States Christian Commission

United States Christian Commission

Southern history of the war : the second year of the war

Ancestry, Early Life and War Record of James Oliver, M. D.: Practicing Physician Fifty Years

21st Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

Proceedings of a general court martial, in the trial of Col. F. W. McMaster, 17th regiment, S.C.V., held at Wilmington, N.C., March 30th, 1863

17th South Carolina Infantry Regiment

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865

Report of delegates from the General Aid Society for the Army, at Buffalo, N.Y. : to visit the government hospitals, and the agencies of the United States Sanitary Commission.

Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac

Pages from an old volume of life: a collection of essays, 1857-1881

Descriptive Lecture: Both Sides of Army Life, the Grave and the Gay

13th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The book of prescriptions : containing 2900 prescriptions, collected from the practice of the most eminent physicians and surgeons, English and foreign : comprising also, a compendious history of the materia medica of all countries, alphabetically arranged, and lists of the doses of all officinal or established preparations

The life and letters of John Hay

A history of Washington County, Maryland from the earliest settlements to the present time, including a history of Hagerstown

Outlines of the chief camp diseases of the United States armies as observed during the present war : a practical contribution to military medicine

The South : a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a decription of the present state of the country - its agriculture - railroads -business and finances

The life and services of Major-General Henry Warner Slocum

Army of the Potomac

Echoes of battle

Battleground adventures, the stories of dwellers on the scenes of conflict in some of the most notable battles of the civil war

McClellan's last service to the republic : together with a tribute to his memory

Army of the Potomac

The young farmers' manual:

The Army of the Potomac. Behind the scenes. A diary of unwritten history; from the organization of the army to the close of the campaign in Virginia, about the first day of January, 1863

5th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The boys of '61; or, Four years of fighting; personal observation with the Army and Navy, from the first battle of Bull Run to the fall of Richmond

Three years in the army. The story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers from July 16, 1861, to August 1, 1864

13th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

Reminiscences of the life of a nurse in field, hospital and camp, during the Civil War

War papers of Frank B. Fay, with reminiscences of service in the camps and hospitals of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865

Auxiliary Relief Corps

Camp and outpost duty for infantry : with standing orders, extracts from the revised regulations for the army, rules for health, maxims for soldiers, and duties of officers

Reminiscences written for my children by request of their mother

20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

Recollections of a private. A story of the Army of the Potomac

2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war 1861-'65

A soldier's letters to charming Nellie

4th Texas Infantry Regiment

The life and campaigns of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart : commander of the cavalry of the Army of northern Virginia

Personal reminiscences of the war of 1861-5 : in camp--en bivouac--on the march--on picket--on the skirmish line--on the battlefield--and in prison

2nd Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment

Four years on the firing line

21st Georgia Infantry Regiment

Three years in the Confederate horse artillery

Chew’s Battery

The story of a cannoneer under Stonewall Jackson

1st Rockbridge Artillery

From Bull Run to Appomattox; a boy's view

6th Virginia Cavalry Regiment

The Maryland line in the Confederate States Army

A memoir of the last year of the war for independence, in the Confederate States of America

The life of Stonewall Jackson. From official papers, contemporary narratives, and personal acquaintance

Personal reminiscences of a Maryland soldier in the war between the states, 1861-1865

Advance and retreat. Personal experiences in the United States and Confederate States armies

Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Jackson

Stonewall Jackson: a military biography

Experience of a Confederate chaplain, 1861-1864 [i.e. 1865]

30th North Carolina Infantry Regiment

Military record of Louisiana; including biographical and historical papers relating to the military organizations of the state; a soldier's story of the late war, muster rolls, lists of casualities in the various regiments (so far as now known), cemeteries where buried, company journals, personal narratives of prominent actors, etc

Four years with General Lee; being a summary of the more important events touching the career of General Robert E. Lee, in the war between the States: together with an authoritative statement of the strength of the army which he commanded in the field

Four years under Marse Robert

History of the Eleventh Georgia Vols., embracing the muster rolls

11th Georgia Infantry Regiment

Military memoirs of a Confederate; a critical narrative

Richard Snowden Andrews, lieutenant-colonel commanding the First Maryland Artillery (Andrews' battalion) Confederate States army; a memoir

1st Maryland Light Artillery

Reminiscences of the boys in gray, 1861-1865

Memoirs of the Confederate war for independence

The reminiscences of Carl Schurz : illustrated with portraits and original drawings

Eleventh Army Corps

Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion 1861-1865

34th Independent Battery New York Light Artillery

Letters written during the Civil War, 1861-1865

2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

A history of the Laurel brigade, originally the Ashby cavalry of the Army of northern Virginia and Chew's battery

7th Virginia Cavalry Regiment

History of the First reg't. Pennsylvania reserve cavalry, from its organization, August, 1861, to september, 1864, with a list of names of allofficers and enlisted men who have ever belonged to the regiment

1st Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment

Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier and Staff Officer Under Johnston, Jackson and Lee

A war diary of events in the war of the great rebellion. 1863-1865

Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early, C.S.A. Autobiographical sketch and narrative of the war between the states

Sketches of the life of Captain Hugh A. White of the Stonewall Brigade

In camp and battle with the Washington artillery of New Orleans. A narrative of events during the late civil war from Bull run to Appomattox and Spanish fort

141st Field Artillery Regiment

Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, at the Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862

1st Rhode Island Light Artillery Regiment

History of the Fourth Maine battery, light artillery, in the civil war, 1861-65; containing a brief account of its services compiled from diaries of its members and other sources. Also personal sketches of many of its members and an account of its reunions from 1882 to 1905

4th Maine Light Artillery Battery

Historical sketch of Co. "D," 13th Regiment, N. J. Vols. Part of the 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, U. S. A. With the muster roll of the company

13th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment

A soldier's story of the war; including the marches and battles of the Washington artillery, and of other Louisiana troops

141st Field Artillery Regiment "Muster roll of the Washington artillery of the Army of Virginia. From May 27th, 1861, to April 8th, 1865": p. 227-235 "Report to the Louisiana Legislature of Adjutant General M. Grivot, upon state troops, for the years 1860, '61 and '62": p. 237-259

The Seventh Regiment : a record

7th Ohio Infantry Regiment

Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery

1st Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery

Journal history of the Twenty-ninth Ohio veteran volunteers, 1861-1865

29th Ohio Infantry Regiment

The history of the First New Jersey cavalry, (Sixteenth regiment, New Jersey volunteers)

1st New Jersey Cavalry Regiment

The record of the Second Massachusetts infantry, 1861-65

2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

Heroes and martyrs of Georgia. Georgia's record in the revolution of 1861

Battle-fields of the South : from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh ; with sketches of the Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps

The campaign from Texas to Maryland

4th Texas Infantry Regiment

Historic Records of the Fifth New York Cavalry

5th New York Cavalry Regiment

The life of Lieutenant General Richard Heron Anderson of the Confederate States army

List of field officers, regiments and battalions in the Confederate States army, 1861-1865.

- Compiled by Claud Estes. cf. Introd.

The first Maryland campaign.

- "Printed by order of the Association of the Maryland Line." - "Originally delivered in Richmond before the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia, and ... printed by the Association and published in the Southern Historical Society Papers."

The national almanac and annual record for the year 1864

Massachusetts in the war, 1861-1865

Johnny Reb and Billy Yank

Private Alexander Hunter (1843 - 1914) Home State: Virginia Branch of Service: Infantry Unit: 17th Virginia Infantry On the Campaign-He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

General McClellan

Personal recollections of the civil war

21st Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

Report of Lewis H. Steiner, M. D., inspector of the Sanitary commission

United States Sanitary Commission Army of the Potomac

Campaigning with Grant

Army of the Potomac

Gen'l Fitz John Porter's reply to Hon. Z. Chandler's speech in the U.S. Senate, Feb. 21, 1870

The life and letters of George Gordon Meade, major-general United States army

From Manassas to Appomattox : memoirs of the Civil War in America

Army of Northern Virginia

Memoirs of Robert E. Lee: his military and personal history, embracing a large amount of information hitherto unpublished

Lincoln and Stanton

Diary and letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes : nineteenth President of the United States

Lincoln and his generals

Lincoln and Seward. Remarks upon the memorial address of Chas. Francis Adams, on the late William H. Seward, with incidents and comments illustrative of the measures and policy of the administration of Abraham Lincoln. And views as to the relative positions of the late President and secretary of state

Anglo-American memories

Personal reminiscences of James A. Scrymser, in times of peace and war

12th New York Infantry Regiment

The bivouac and the battlefield, or, Campaign sketches in Virginia and Maryland

Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times

Colonel Alexander K. McClure's recollections of half a century

A soldier's diary; the story of a volunteer, 1862-1865

17th Michigan Infantry Regiment

Recollections and letters of General Robert E. Lee

Personal recollections of the war of 1861, as private, sergeant and lieutenant in the Sixty-first Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry

61st New York Infantry Regiment

The second battle of Bull Run, as connected with the Fitz-John Porter Case. A paper read before the Society of ex-army and navy officers of Cincinnati, February 28, 1882

Stories of our soldiers : war reminiscences

Four brothers in blue; or, Sunshine and shadows of the War of the Rebellion; a story of the great civil war from Bull Run to Appomattox

Leaves from the diary of an army surgeon; or, Incidents of field, camp, and hospital life

Abraham Lincoln : a history

Prospectus for: Abraham Lincoln : a history (Century Co., 1890) Includes index Includes subscription register Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography

McClellan : from Ball's Bluff to Antietam

Comprising part of a series of articles which first appeared in "Wilkes' spirit of the times" [July 9, 1862-March 30, 1863]

A summary of the case of General Fitz-John Porter

Essays in military biography

On t.-p. of the English edition, London, 1874: Reprinted chiefly from the 'Edinburgh review' De Fezenszc's recollections of the grand army -- Henry von Brandt, a German soldier of the first empire -- Cornwallis and the Indian services -- a Carolina loyalist in the revolutionary war- Sir William Gordon of Gordon's battery -- Chinese Gordon and the Taiping rebellion

The life and letters of Emory Upton, Colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Artillery, and Brevet Major-General, U.S. Army

The Military policy of the United States

Ed. by Joseph P. Sanger, assisted by William D. Beach and Charles D. Rhodes, of the Military information division of the General staff, from an unpublished manuscript to which General Upton had devoted the last years of his life

Diary of Gideon Welles, secretary of the navy under Lincoln and Johnson

Under the old flag; or, Memories of field and camp

Letters from two brothers serving in the war for the union to their family at home in West Cambridge, Mass

Memorial, Virginia military institute. Biographical sketches of the graduates and élèves of the Virginia military institue who fell during the war between the states

A history of Rockingham County, Virginia

Robert Toombs, statesman, speaker, soldier, sage: his career in Congress and on the hustings--his work in the courts--his record with the army--his life at home

The Antietam and Fredericksburg

The life of Lieutenant General Richard Heron Anderson of the Confederate States army

Reminiscences of a private

1st Regiment, South Carolina Infantry (Hagood's)

McClellan's own story: the war for the Union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it and his relations to it and to them

"Biographical sketch of George B. McClellan, by W.C. Prime": p. [1]-24 The narrative ceases with the author's removal from command, Nov. 5, 1862

General Gordon, Reminiscences of the civil war

A personal narrative of the American Civil War experiences of John B. Gordon. Gordon served as the Colonel in command of the 6th Alabama Regiment and saw furious combat in the Sunken road as part of Rodes' Brigade of D. H. Hill's Division in Jackson's Command.

Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Vol. 1

- A personal narrative by Jacob D. Cox of his wartime experiences. - At the beginning of the Maryland Campaign, Cox's brigade became the Kanawha Division of the IX Corps of the Army of the Potomac. - Cox led the assault on the Confederates on September 14, 1862, at the Battle of South Mountain. - When corps commander Maj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno was killed at South Mountain, Cox assumed command of the IX Corps. - During Antietam, Cox continued to be in command of the IX Corps under Burnside's supervision.

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