Benjamin Franklin Edy

He enlisted in April 1861 as a Private in Company G of the Erie Regiment for 3-months' service. They trained and drilled near Pittsburgh, but did not leave the state, and he mustered out with them in July. He enlisted again and mustered into service as First Sergeant of Company C of the 111th Pennsylvania Infantry on 20 October 1861.

He was in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He mustered out with his Company on 19 July 1865.

In 1870 he was a blacksmith in Mercer County, PA, but by 1880, still working as a blacksmith, lived in Ashtabula, OH. In 1910 he was a truck (?) merchant living with his son William and family in Franklin, OH. He may have been a resident of the Pennsylvania Soldiers & Sailors Home in Erie at his death at age 81 in 1917.

His service from Bates.1 His presence at Antietam from letter of 21 September from Harpers Ferry by his step-brother Edwin Whipple, transcribed and hosted online by Griff; 3 of Ben's wartime letters are also in that collection. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870, 1880, and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Carolina M "Carrie" Smiley (1842-1924) in 1867 and they had 2 sons.

His step-brother Edwin M. Whipple was a Private in Company C.

02/09/1836; Springfield, PA

10/20/1917; Erie, PA; burial in Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Erie, PA