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Federal (USV)

Private

James Edwards

(c. 1821 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 40, he enlisted on 19 August 1861 in Philadelphia and mustered into service as Private, Company F, 69th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 October at Camp Observation, MD.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his side in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Stone House field hospital on the Samuel Poffenberger farm near Sharpsburg and admitted to the City Hotel hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September, but he died there the next day.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 3 and Nelson.4 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1821

Death

09/29/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11607]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23263]

3 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 #444 [AotW citation 23264]

4 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 199 [AotW citation 23265]

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