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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Edward R. Scanlan

(? - 1864)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Gonzales County as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 18 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was killed in the battle of the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. He's also seen as Edward R. Scanlin and Scanlon.

Death

05/06/1864; the Wilderness, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316 [AotW citation 1647]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26592]

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