Edward C. Councell

In 1860 he was a 22 year old brick mason at Natchez in Adams County, MS. He enrolled there on 26 April 1861 and mustered as First Lieutenant of Company D, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 25 May 1861. He was promoted to Captain during the Army reorganization on 26 April 1862.

He was wounded in the face in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Major of the regiment on 10 March 1864 ( to date from 20 December 1862) and Colonel on 6 July 1864 (to date from 12 May). He was wounded by a gunshot and captured on 21 August on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA and died of wounds in a US Army hospital in Alexandria, VA on 10 September 1864.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

06/10/1832; Baltimore, MD

09/10/1864; Alexandria, VA; burial in Saint Vincent De Paul's Church Cemetery, Baltimore, MD