Caption from negative sleeve: Straw huts erected on Smith's farm, and used as a hospital after the battle of Antietam. Sept. 1862.
Keedysville, Md., vicinity. Smith's barn, used as a hospital after the battle of Antietam.
Title from Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0136
Caption from negative sleeve: A lone grave on battlefield of Antietam.
Caption from negative sleeve: Graves of Federal Soldiers at Burnside Bridge, Antietam, 21st September, 1862.
-- It is believed that these are the 12 graves of the 51st New York Volunteers, who died trying to cross the Lower Bridge across the Antietam.
The burial party of Union soldiers after the Battle of Antietam. Those to be buried are probably Confederate dead, as trenches were dug near the Sunken Road to accomodate the large number of dead from that part of the Battlefield.
Henry C. Eddy,
died at Clarysville Hospital Maryland,
Apr 21, 1865.
A member of Co. C. 152 Reg. Ind. Vol.
Aged 21 Yrs, 7 Mo, & 4 D's.
FOLCKS MILL - by John McGrain
Excerpts from the Allegany Almanack
Atty. W. A. Gunter has loaned the editor an interesting booklet entitled "The Allegany County Letter League" published by the Monarch Press in 1945. It was an Almanack containing much relevant history of Allegany County which was sent to the boys overseas during World War II along with a monthly mimeographed letter. Mr. Gunter supervised and edited most of the material from his law office, and was assisted by Judge Sloan and Mary C. Kelly, their Secretary:
Hancock to Green Spring depot - Ted Alexander
The Alleganian
Cumberland, Maryland, Wednesday Morning, Nov. 2, 1864.
Publication office in Mechanic Street near the National Hotel.
A SALVO OF ONE HUNDRED GUNS, in honor of the abolition of slavery in this State, which took effect agreeably to the proclamation of the Governor yesterday, was fired from one of the forts surrounding the city.