Edward Alexander Moore

A student at Washington (now Washington & Lee) College in Lexington, he enlisted in the Rockbridge Artillery as Private, joining the battery on the Valley Campaign in March 1862. He was later at Second Bull Run and Chantilly.

He manned a piece at Sharpsburg and was seriously wounded in the thigh by counter-battery fire there on 17 September. He spent time in a rough hospital in Shepherdstown before returning to Lexington to recover.

Moore returned to his battery in January 1863, and saw action again at Chancellorsville, Winchester, Gettysburg, and at Cold Harbor, where in June 1864 he was again wounded. He was back in service by September in the defenses of Richmond, then Petersburg. He ended his service at Appomattox Courthouse in April 1865.

Basics about his service and the portrait above are from Moore's own Cannoneer.1

10/21/1842; Lexington, VA

11/18/1916; Salisbury, MD; burial in Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, VA