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Federal (USV)

Private

Daniel W. Edson

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 89th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 26 years. Enlisted November 4, 1861, at Windsor, to serve three years; mustered in as Private, Co. G, November 11, 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862 and died of his wounds at Sharpsburg, same date.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York1.

Birth

c. 1835

Death

9/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, for the Year 1901 (Issue 31), pp. 218 - 228  [AotW citation 12446]