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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Edwin G. Main

(c. 1822 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 37 year old tavern keeper in Brooklyn, Windham County, CT. He enrolled on 3 September 1861 and mustered as First Lieutenant of Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the hip in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

[He was] a staid, earnest man, past middle life. He was esteemed for his paternal care of his men, and his unpretending bravery and firmness. In the afternoon, while calmly leading his men, he was shot through the body. For a month [sic] he lingered in hospital, with all that the loving care of a wife could do but he died, praying for God's blessing on the country he had so faithfully served.

The rest of the War

He died 18 November 1862 at the Crystal Spring Hospital in Keedysville, MD.

References & notes

Casualty information from Banks1 and Major Ward's after-action report. His service from the Record.2 The quote above from the History.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary E Butts (1828-1877) in November 1843.

Birth

c. 1822; Preston, CT

Death

11/18/1862; Keedysville, MD; burial in South Cemetery, Brooklyn, CT

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12544]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 344 [AotW citation 30602]

3 Croffut, W. A., and John M. Morris, The Military and Civil History of Connecticut during the War of 1861-65, New York: Ledyard Bill, 1868, p. 277 [AotW citation 30603]

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