Antietam: Where Connecticut soldiers met their demise

MARVIN WAIT, 8th CONNECTICUT LIEUTENANT:
From Norwich, he was mortally wounded  near Harpers Ferry Road during the Ninth Corps' attack.
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Nineteen-year-old Marvin Wait's refusal to leave the battlefield after initially being wounded at the Battle of Antietam  may have cost him his life. "If Lieutenant Wait had left the battle of his own accord when first hit in the arm, all would have been well," 8th Connecticut Captain Charles Coit wrote after the battle, "but he bravely stood to encourage his men still further by his own example, and at last nobly fell pierced by bullet after bullet."  The last words of the 8th Connecticut lieutenant to a private who helped carry him to the rear were: "Are we whipping them?" (1) With the aid of Antietam battlefield guide Bill Sagle on Sunday, I photographed the placard of Wait near the 8th Connecticut monument. As noted in this post, on Sunday and Monday I photographed the placards of Connecticut soldiers who were killed or mortally wounded at Antietam near where the men met their demise. The weather was cooperative, allowing for a pretty cool presentation. My second-favorite image is the one below of 16th Connecticut captain Newton Manross, who was killed by cannon fire in farmer John Otto's 40-acre cornfield. Before he enlisted in the Union army, Manross told his wife: "You can better afford to have a country without a husband than a husband without a country.." That's great stuff.
(1) Memorial of Marvin Wait, Jacob Eaton, 1863

NEWTON MANROSS: 16th CONNECTICUT CAPTAIN:
From Bristol, he was struck and killed by cannon fire on John Otto's farm.
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GIDEON BARNES: 16th CONNECTICUT PRIVATE:
Mortally wounded at Antietam, he died at his father's house in Burlington, Conn.
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DANIEL TARBOX; 11th CONNECTICUT CAPTAIN:
From Brooklyn, Conn., he was killed in a field near Burnside Bridge.
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HENRY BARNETT: 16th CONNECTICUT PRIVATE:
From Suffield, Conn., his body was found after the battle by a pile of  fence rails.
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SAMUEL BROWN, 16th CONNECTICUT CAPTAIN:
Brown's body was found stripped of his outer clothes and shoes. He was from South Danvers, Mass.
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