JABQ04 said:

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Hey Cougar, in about a week I'll share some pictures of Confederates infantry in all their ragged gloriousness at Antietam. I'll be there for the 160th portraying the 4th Texas

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1986

During my campaigning years. I am somewhere in this video...

It's O'Sullivan's famous "Harvest of the Dead" photo from Gettysburg and as you say, it is one of the rare photographs of Union dead. That colorized view was done recently for an article in one of the Civil War magazines where an author was trying to pinpoint the location. Frassanito tended to think this photo was on the second day battlefield near Cemetery Hill but this new article pretty convincingly placed it on the first day's battlefield. That author tried to prove it by looking at the mountains in the background. That author says that is South Mountain in the background and he lined up modern photos with the period photo to try to show it. The biggest issue with his theory is that the foreground terrain has changed considerably due to manmade changes to the area.

BQ78 said:

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It's O'Sullivan's famous "Harvest of the Dead" photo from Gettysburg and as you say, it is one of the rare photographs of Union dead. That colorized view was done recently for an article in one of the Civil War magazines where an author was trying to pinpoint the location. Frassanito tended to think this photo was on the second day battlefield near Cemetery Hill but this new article pretty convincingly placed it on the first day's battlefield. That author tried to prove it by looking at the mountains in the background. That author says that is South Mountain in the background and he lined up modern photos with the period photo to try to show it. The biggest issue with his theory is that the foreground terrain has changed considerably due to manmade changes to the area.

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Very cool.

Rabid Cougar said:

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JABQ04 said:

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Hey Cougar, in about a week I'll share some pictures of Confederates infantry in all their ragged gloriousness at Antietam. I'll be there for the 160th portraying the 4th Texas

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1986

During my campaigning years. I am somewhere in this video...

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I enjoy the Lionworks YouTube channels. Lots of great videos and some good movies too

Thanks for posting these fellas. My GGGF James Morris, Co B, 15th Georgia Infantry, Benning's Brigade, survived that day. 15th Georgia was extreme right regiment of Longstreet's Corps. Then A.P. Hill arrived from Harper's Ferry

Relatives with 6th Alabama under John B. Gordon at the Sunken Road. 53 killed and 104 wounded including three of the relatives.

Thanks for the pic and info.

GGG grandfather was with the Texas 1st. He lost an arm at Sharpsburg. The 1st had more than 80% killed or wounded in the "Cornfield". If I correctly understand summary accounts of what happened that day, the Union group the 1st encountered started running away and they basically became a "mob" chasing after them. The officers lost control and the uncontrolled rush lead them into the slaughter.

Snip from the Antietam on the web site

"On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the left hand and arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His left arm was amputated as a result of his wound. He retired on 1 December 1864 at Shreveport, LA."

troy_y said:

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Thanks for the pic and info.

GGG grandfather was with the Texas 1st. He lost an arm at Sharpsburg. The 1st had more than 80% killed or wounded in the "Cornfield". If I correctly understand summary accounts of what happened that day, the Union group the 1st encountered started running away and they basically became a "mob" chasing after them. The officers lost control and the uncontrolled rush lead them into the slaughter.

Snip from the Antietam on the web site

"On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the left hand and arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His left arm was amputated as a result of his wound. He retired on 1 December 1864 at Shreveport, LA."

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They were by themselves with almost no support. Their enthusiasm and lack of discipline along with six 12 Pounders firing double canister and 600 smooth bores with buck and ball at 50 yards is what got them.

I have walked this ground numerous times. It is a truly a religious experience

Thanks for the additional insight.

Unfortunately, another example for the textbooks of what happens when discipline is lost.

troy_y said:

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Thanks for the additional insight.

Unfortunately, another example for the textbooks of what happens when discipline is lost.

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I wouldn't quite say that, though their lack of discipline certainly didn't help. The fighting in the Cornfield, along the Hagerstown pike, and that vicinity was chaotic as hell. They were a highly motivated unit, and arguably the most effective troops in the ANV and they sensed momentary weakness amongst their enemy and went in as they would often do in a sledgehammer like blow.

https://www.historynet.com/fighting-fast-texas-brigade-sharpsburg/


https://www.facebook.com/1482696925/posts/pfbid0itqZL76THFjzoCxfmABaGgRo4SHijoJk8cSQGy3NP2Gipdqa7d245suBFjmZoXm2l/?d=n

Video is from a Living History event at Sharpsburg portraying the 4th Texas. 160 years to the day to the minute we assaulted towards the Hagerstown Pike from Smoketown Road on the same ground as the 4th did.

Thank you