September 21st - 27th, 1862

Dealing With The Dead and Wounded
Dead Soldiers at Sharpsburg

This week was consumed with caring for the wounded and burying the dead from Sharpsburg (Antietam.) In the west the army had to deal with a similar aftermath of Munfordville, Kentucky although the numbers were not as great.

At Sharpsburg the Union killed were 2,100 men and 9,550 wounded. For the Confederates the numbers were 1,550 killed and 7,550 wounded. Note that these battle casualties came just two weeks after the losses of 22,000 men at Second Manassas.

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Here is a sample entry from Antietam.

Case. - Sergeant Thomas H. Law, Co. I, 5th New Hampshire Volunteers, received, at the battle of Antietam, Maryland September 17th, 1862, a gunshot wound of the integuments of the forehead. He was admitted to the hospital of the Second Corps, and, on October 5th, was sent to the Dailies Home Hospital at New York. An abscess of the scalp formed, and meningitis ensued, terminating in compression of the brain, coma, and death on October 11th, 1862. Surgeon A. B. Mott, U. S. V., reports the case. Sharpsburg was the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War, but there were other battles, lasting more than one day, in which more men fell. The numbers below are total casualties for both sides.  

At Munfordville, the Union casualties were 4,148 and the Confederates lost 714.

President Lincoln, in an attempt to give a "cause" to the war announced his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on Monday, ostensibly threatening to free the slaves in the Confederate States while not taking a similar stance on the states over which he had that power. 

Sunday September 21, 1862
·	Manley Stacey Letter to His Father
·	Cassville, Missouri
·	Fort Crook, California
·	Munfordville, Kentucky
·	Shepherdsville, Kentucky
·	Thomas D. Christie Letter to His Sister
·	Donaldsonville, Louisiana
Monday, September 22, 1862
·	Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
·	Ashby's Gap, Virginia
·	Sturgeon, Missouri
·	The Diary of John Hill Fergusson
·	Sutton, Virginia
Tuesday, September  23, 1862
·	The Diary of Amanda McDowell
·	Wolf Creek Bridge, Tennessee
·	Wood Lake, Minnesota
Wednesday, September 24, 1862
·	Skull Creek, South Carolina
·	Sabine Pass, Texas
Thursday, September 25, 1862
·	Ashbysburg, Kentucky
·	Davis' Bridge, Tennessee
·	Snow's Pond, Kentucky
·	Burning of Randolph
Friday, September 26, 1862
·	Cambridge, Missouri
Saturday, September 27, 1862
·	Augusta, Kentucky
·	Buffalo, West Virginia
·	Taylor's Bayou, Texas

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