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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Gershaum Edwards

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Maryland

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Maryland Infantry

Before Antietam

Enlisted in Company E, 5th Maryland Infantry on 28 September 1861 at age 19.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Wilmer1.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Wilmer, L. Allison, and J.H. Jarrett, George H. Vernon, State Commissioners, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Baltimore: Press of Guggenheimer, Weil & Co., 1898, Vol. 1, pg. 199 [AotW citation 14323]

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