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16th Connecticut Private George Chamberlain suffered from a "wound from the entrance  of musket ball a little below the bend of the ...

Captain Henry Sand of the 103rd New York died at the German Reformed Church hospital. (New York State Military Museum) A post Sund...

One of the more awe-inspiring scenes at the Antietam isn't on the battlefield. It's in a seldom-visited church on Main Street in ...

The grave in Enfield, Conn.., of Henry Tracy. Right, Tracy in a  post-war image in a newspaper. The stories of many who witnessed or f...

This envelope contained a letter addressed to Horace Lay, a private in the 16th Connecticut who was wounded at Antietam. He died nearly t...

Sharpsburg's Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church was used as a hospital for the  Union V Corps. The image was taken by Alexander Gardner on S...

From Sharpsburg, Md., Barney Houser was a  private in the 1st Maryland Potomac Home  Brigade. Like this blog on Facebook  | Follow me ...

Connecticut Civil War veterans chipped  in  $400 in 1891 to purchase this  stained-glass   window for the   German Reformed Church . I...

Close-up of the front of the gravestone of  James W. Brooks, an 18-year-old private  in the 16th Connecticut, who was mortally wounded at...

Wounded soldiers, including many from the 16th Connecticut, were treated at the  German Reformed Church (now called Christ Reform Church...