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Chronology : 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | After

History Detail Pages

Soldiers' Letters & Articles

Articles by Edwin H. Brigham, Company A

A Reminiscence of Thoroughfare Gap

Letter of Bill Cary, Company D

April 5, 1862; Description of Bull Run Battlefield
September 24, 1862, Antietam

Articles by Charles E. Davis, Jr.

A Freak and a Fiend
General Hartsuff and the Baked Beans
God's Blessing
"Shelter Tents"
"The Joint Stock Frying Pan Company"
The 3 Ponies of Company B
From Manassas to Boston
"A Narrow Escape," (Corporal Bob Armstrong)

Letter of Frank Davis, Company K

April 7, 1862; New Recruit

Reminiscences of Private Levi L. Dorr, Company B

Antietam

Letter of Prince Dunton, Company H

Antietam, September 24, 1862

Reminiscence of Sergeant John Sawyer. Fay, Company F

"The Battles of South Mountain & Antietam"
Camp at Sharpsburg, 1862
March to Fredericksburg

Letters of Charles Bernard Fox, Company K

At Harper's Ferry, Virginia, October 6th 1861
October 19th 1861
November 4th 1861
At Williamsport, Maryland
At Front Royal, VIrginia
At Cedar Run, Virginia
2nd Battle of Bull Run
September 21, 1862, Antietam
Lieutenant Fox's list of Casualties at Antietam
October 25, 1862, Sharpsburg, Md.
November 7, 1862, Warrenton, Virginia
November 27, 1862, Camp near Brooks Station

Letters of Warren H. Freeman, Company A

Williamsport, January 4, 1862
Williamsport, January 19, 1862
Williamsport, February 3, 1862
Williamsport, February 23, 1862, Washington's Birthday
Martinsburg, Va., March 3, 1862
March 7, 1862, Advance to Bunker Hill
March 14, 1862, Advance to Winchester
March 17, 1862, Winchester, Reconaissance in Force
March 30, 1862; Winchester to Manassas
April 13, 1862, Picket duty at Manassas
April 20, 1862, Warrenton Jctn.
April 27, 1862, Manassas
May 4, 1862, picket duty at Catlett's Station
May 18, 1862 at Falmouth
May 23, 1862, Opposite Fredericksburg
June 15, Front Royal
June 22, Manassas
July 5, 1862; Warrenton, Va.
July 29, 1862, Warrenton, Va.; Routine of Camp Life
August 25 & 26, 1862; Near Warrenton; Artillery Duel
Hall's Hill, September 4, 1862
Near Sharpsburg, September 21, 1862.
Near Sharpsburg, October 3, 1862
Near Warrenton, November 8, 1862
Near Rappahannock Station, November 17, 1862
Near Brooks Station, December 4, 1862

Letter of Major Jacob Parker Gould

Harper's Ferry
Antietam

Letter of George Henry Hill, Company B

At Darnestown
2nd Bull Run

Letter of Captain W. H. Jackson, Company C

To Colonel Leonard about Bolivar Heights

Article by George Edward Jepson, Company A

General Joseph Hooker (excerpt)

Letters of Charles Leland, Company B

February 27, 1862

Reminiscence of Lyman Low, Company B

2nd Bull Run

Letter of James Lowell, Company A

At Hancock
September 10, 1920, about Antietam

Letters of John B. Noyes, Company B

At Fort Independence.
July 2nd 1861
On Board the Connecticut, July 30th 1861.
Departure
Camp at Sharpsburg, August, 1861
Camp at Sandy Hook, September, 1861
Camp at Darnestown, Md.
Review at Darnestown
At Williamsport, 1861
Thanksgiving, 1861
At Hancock, 1861
Return to Camp, Jan 4, 1862
Williamsport Ladies Grand Concert, February 22, 1862
Advance to Martinsburg, March 2, 1862
Sutlers, May 2,1862
General Hartsuff v. Gen'l. Abercrombie, May 11, 1862
Front Royal, June 13, 1862
Waterloo, Va.; July 31, 1862
Near Warrenton, August 25, 1862
2nd Bull Run, September 6, 1862
Conduct of Officers at 2nd Bull Run; September 26, 1862
September 8th, 1862
September 18, 1862, Near Keedysville, MD
September 21, 1862, Hagerstown, MD
September 30, 1862, Harrisburg, PA, Battle of Antietam
October 13, 1862, Harrisburg, PA, Col. Leonard's Visit

Reminiscence of George F. D. Paine, Company A

How I Left Bull Run Battlefield

Reminiscence of Elliot C. Pierce, Field & Staff

A Midnight Ride
First Anniversary of the Regiment

Letters of James Ramsey, Company E

At Fort Independence.
July 15, 1861.
At Sharpsburg, August, 1861.
At Sandy Hook
At Darnestown, Md.
The March to Williamsport
In Camp at Williamsport, 1861
At Hancock, Maryland, 1861
Expedition to Bath
Williamsport, January 12, 1862
January 27, 1862, Cooking for the Company
March 13, 1862, The Advance to Winchester
April 11, 1862, Foraging Party
May 22, 1862, Opposite Fredericksburg
June 5, 1862, near Front Royal
June 12, 1862, death of John Brown, 12th Mass. Vol. Inf.
July 7, 1862; Warrenton, Va.
August 20-22; North bank of the Rappahannock
September 9th 1862; 2nd Bull Run
September 25th, 1862; Hospital Care

Letters of Edwin Rice, Band

Fort Independence
Darnestown, Maryland
Williamsport, Maryland, 1861
Williamsport, December 2nd
Williamsport, December 15
Williamsport, Christmas Eve
Williamsport, January 7, 1862
Williamsport, January 26, 1862
Williamsport, February 10, 1862
Williamsport, February 28, 1862
Martinsburg, Va., March 4, 1862
Bunker Hill, Va., March 7, 1862
Bunker Hill, March 9, 1862, Cavalry Fight
Winchester, Va., March 12, 1862
April 19, 1862, Schedule of the Band
May 1, 1862, General Hartsuff
Camp at Catlett's Station, May 11, 1862
Falmouth, Va., May 16, 1862
Front Royal, June 7, 1862
Manassas, June 26, 1862
Warrenton, July 16, 1862
Waterloo, July 23, 1862
Camp near Cedar Mountain, August 14, 1862

Memoirs of Charles H. Roundy, Company F

How I Enlisted
Fort Independence
Departure
John Brown
Camp at Williamsport
A Secret for 16 Years
Retrospective & Pope's Retreat

Letter of Capt. R. Shriber, Company I

Court Marshall Proceedings and Correspondence
October 31, 1861; appointed to Gen'l Banks Staff

Memoirs of Austin C. Stearns, Company K

Fort Independence
Harper's Ferry
Scouting Parties at Harper's Ferry
Williamsport
March to Hancock and Back
Who Took Martinsburg?
Company K and the Flag
Death of Patrick Cleary
The Heights of Centreville
A Tree Falls in Camp
Front Royal
"Lets Be Jolly" - Chaplain Gaylord
"Lights Out in K"
"Tour of the Battlefield of Cedar Mountain"
"Old Heath"
2nd Bull Run
"New Commanders, New Men, New Hope"
The Battle of Antietam
March to Fredericksburg (excerpts)

Walter Swan's Reminiscence

Hospitals after 2nd Bull Run

Letters of Dennis G. Walker

July 31, 1862; Waterloo, Va.

Remembrance of Melvin H. Walker

President Lincoln

Letters of Oliver H. Walker, Company C

August 2nd & 5th, 1861
August 20th, 1861
December 2nd, 1861

Memoirs of William R. Warner, Company K

Bolivar Heights

Diary of Samuel Derrick Webster

March 12 - 14, 1862; fixing the steam engine at Martinsburg
March 23 - 27, 1862, excerpts; Marches, Reconaissance
April 11, 1862; Quality of Water in Camp
April 24, 1862; Playing Tricks on the Commissary
May 1, 1862; New Brigade Commander Hartsuff
August 29 - 30th, 1862; 2nd Bull Run
August 31st - September 9th 1862
September 11th - 15th, 1862
September 16th - 18th, 1862
September 18th - October 16th, 1862
March to Fredericksburg, Nov. 9th - Dec. 7th, 1862

Newspaper Articles

Official Records of the War of the Rebellion

Skirmish at Pritchard's Mill, September 15, 1861.
Battle of Bolivar Heights, October 16, 1861.
Colonel Richard Coulter's Battle Report for Antietam

Photographs

Officers of the 13th Mass
Portraits of the original Officers
Company C
Company K, Cook House, Williamsport
Thanksgiving in Camp
Thirteenth Mass Band
Thirteenth Mass Glee Club
Surgeons Whitney & Heard
Williamsport, Library in Camp
Williamsport, Stables

Archibald, Edwin A.
Armstrong, Robert, Corporal
also, Armstrong, Robert
Ayers, Michael G.
Bacon, William, Lt. Co. K
Batchelder, N. Walter, Lt.-Col.
Beaumont, Walter
Bigelow, Loring
Bradlee, David, adjutant of 13th Mass.
Brigham, Alfred W.
Brown, David L., Lt. Co. I
Clark, William L. Garrison
Cary, Annie Louise, sister
Cary Brothers, Joe, Sam, WIlliam
Cary, Captain Joseph
(also) Cary, Captain Joseph
Cary William Howard
(also) Cary, William Howard
Cody, James
Colburn, Joseph
(also) Colburn Joseph
Craig, George E., Quartermaster, 13th Mass
Crane, Silas P.
Curtis, Albert O.
Cutting, James H.
Dale, Charles R.
Davis, Charles E. Jr.(post war)
Davis, Charles E. Jr. (war-time)
Dorr, Levi L.
Fay, John Sawyer
Fiske, Eben
Fiske, Eugene Allen
Forbes, James Lascelle
Forbush, William Henry.
Fox, Charles Bernard.
Fox, James Augustus
Freeman, Warren H.
Fuller, John T, Co. B, (drowned at Front Royal)
Geary, John White, 28th Pa.
Gaylord, Noah, Chaplain
Gould, Jacob Parker.
Gould, Samuel Shelton
Hall, Adna P.
Harlow, Augustine, Capt. Co. D
Henderson, Robert B.
Hill, George Henry
(also) Hill, George Henry
Hovey, Charles H., Captain
Humphreys, Walter
Jackson, William H.
(also) Jackson, William H.
Leland, Charles E.
Leonard, Colonel Samuel H.
also Leonard, Colonel Samuel H.
and, Leonard, Colonel Samuel H.
also, Leonard, Colonel Samuel H.
Little, Thomas J.
Low, Lyman H.
Lowell, James H.
Marshall, George E.
Mayo, Charles H.
Mecuen, George E.
Noyes, John Buttrick
Paine, George F. D.
Palmer; Captain Moses.
Pfaff, William
Pierce, Elliot Clark
Pierce, Enoch C.
Pollard, Walter
Pope, Abel H.
Ramsey, James F.
Rice, Edwin
Rice, Edwin, (postwar)
Richards, Charles N.
Rideout, William H. H.
Robbins, Chandler
Russell, Lauriman H.
Sanborn, Harry S.
Sanderson, John C.
Shelton, John P.
Smith, James Augustus.
Smith, Mel, Commissary Sgt.
Soule, Will
Stearns, Austin C.
Stimpson, Frank
Swan Walter
Walker, Melvin
Warner, William R.
Webster, Samuel Derrick
Whidden, Philo C.
Whitney, Dr. Allston W.
Williams, Fred
(also) Williams, Fred
Worcester, George S.

Other Photographs & Illustrations

Andrew, John A., Governor of Massachusetts
Antietam Creek, Upper Bridge
Ashby, Turner, Brig. Gen. C.S. by John Paul Strain Boyd, Belle, 'Southern Spy'
Bacon, Henry; "Battle of Dam No. 5"
Bacon, Henry; 'Reveille on a Winter Morning"
Bacon, Henry; "Ye Two Galorious Fourths"
Bates; James L.; Captain and Colonel of the 12th Mass. Vol. Inf.
Berlin, MD Pontoon Bridge
Boonsboro, Maryland
Buck, Lucy & Laura, Southern Diarist, Front Royal
Brodhead, Colonel Thornton
Burnside, Major General Ambrose E.
Catlett's Station and Cedar Run Bridge by A. E. Waud
Cedar Mountain, Va.
Convalescent Camp, Alexandria, Virginia
Coulter, Colonel Richard; (11th PA Vols)
Dam No. 5, C&O Canal
Dunker Church, Antietam Battlefield
Elizabeth Ensminger
Forbes, Edwin; A Tough Pull
Forbes, Edwin; Coffee Coolers
Forbes, Edwin; several sketches by;
Forbes, Edwin, Sketches of Fremont's pursuit of Jackson
Forbes, Edwin, Battle of Cedar Mountain sketches
Forbes, Edwin; Defending the Battery
Forbes, Edwin; Newspapers in Camp (several images).
Forbes, Edwin; Played Out
Forbes, Edwin; Reconaissance in Force
Forbes, Edwin; Route Step
Forbes, Edwin; sketches at the battle of 2nd Bull Run
Fort Independence
Fremont, General John C;
Front Royal, Va., Pictures of the town
Gibbon, John, Brigadier-General
Gooch, Senator, Daniel W. of Massachusetts
John Brown's Fort
John Brown Bell, close up
John Brown Bell, Marlboro, Mass.
Halltown, Harper's Weekly
Hancock, Maryland
Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry & Bolivar Heights
Harpers Ferry, Shenandoah Street
Hartsuff, General George Lucas
Hartsuff, Headquarters, Petersburg, VA
Hartsuff, General George L., Burial Site
Haupt, Colonel Herman
Homer, Winslow; various scenes of camp life
Hooker, General Joseph
Hospitals, Washington, D.C.
Jackson, Confederate General Thomas, Stonewall
Jackson, Stonewall, by N.C. Wyeth
Lander, General Frederick West
Lee, Confederate General Robert E.
Lincoln, Abraham
also, Lincoln, Abraham
Lock 33, C & O Canal
Longstreet, James; Confederate General
Long Wharf, Boston Harbor
Manson, General M. D., brigade leader, 23rd Corps
Marlborough, Massachusetts; Main Street; 1880's
Martinsburg, by Alfred Waud
Martland, William J., 12th Mass, Bandleader
Maryland Heights
Massachusetts Monument, Antietam Battlefield
McClellan, General George B.
McDowell, General Irvin
McDowell's HQ at Manassas; July, 1862
Ogden, Henry Alexander; Rebel Cavalry
Orange &Alexandria Railroad; various scenes
Ord, General Edward O.C.,
Perkins, S. C., 12th Mass
Poffenberger Farm (Joseph)
Poffenberger Farm (Samuel)
Pope, John; Major-General
Pyle, Howard, Pirate Illustration
Rappahannock Station Railroad Bridge by Timothy Sullivan
Retreat from Alpine Station, Jan. 4th 1862
Review of General McDowell's Corps, May 20,1862; Edwin Forbes
Ricketts, General James
St. James Episcopal Church, Warrenton, Va.
Shepherdstown Ford
Shields, General James
Smalley, George Washburn
Steamer John Brooks
Steamer Lady Elgin
Steamer Nelly Baker
Stevens, General Isaac Ingalls,
Stiles, Colonel John L., (83rd NY; 9th NYSM)
Strother, Colonel David H.
Stuart, James Ewell Brown; Confederate General
Summit House, South Mountain
Tabor, Walton; sketch of a Confederate Battery
Tabor, Walton, Into the Cornfield
Taylor, General George W.
Taylor, Brigadier-General Nelson
Thoroughfare Gap & Chapman's Mill
Thur de Thulstrup, Battle of Antietam
Virginius Island, Herr's Mill
Volck, Adelbert John, Emancipation
Von Borcke, Heros
Warrenton, Virginia
Waterloo Bridge, Virginia
Waud, Alfred R., Antietam, Flag of Truce
Waud, Alfred R., Sharpsburg Citizens Fleeing Town
Waud; Alfred R. Sketches of the Battle of 2nd Bull Run
Waud, Alfred R., Sketches of the Battle of Antietam
Webster, Colonel Fletcher, (12th Mass Vols)
Westboro, Mass., Old Town Hall
Wheelock, Colonel Charles, 97th NY
Winchester, Va., Court House
Winchester, Va., Courthouse graffiti of Hicks & Wait, Co. B
Winchester, Va., Taylor Hotel

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