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E. Burbank
(1810 - 1862)
Home State: Massachusetts
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a prosperous 50 year old morocco leather manufacturer in Woburn, Middlesex County, MA. He was commissioned and mustered as the Major of 12th Massachusetts Infantry on 26 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was in command of the Regiment on the Maryland Campaign following the death of Colonel Webster at 2nd Bull Run in August. He was mortally wounded in action while leading the Regiment near the Cornfield on the morning of 17 September.
The rest of the War
He was treated at Suman's and the Market Street US Army hospitals in Frederick, MD but died there of wounds on 30 November 1862.
References & notes
His service from Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Liljenquist Family Collection at the Library of Congress.
He married Lydia Poor (1809-1881) in April 1833.
Birth
1810; Charlestown, MA
Death
11/30/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Lindenwood Cemetery, Stoneham, Massachusetts
1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 3 [AotW citation 22151]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #7, 35 [AotW citation 22152]