site logo
[no picture yet]

[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

Edward McCann

Home State: Rhode Island

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Rhode Island Infantry

Before Antietam

From Providence, he enlisted on 19 September 1861 in Company H, 4th Rhode Island Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in hospital and discharged for wounds on 16 December 1862 at Baltimore, MD.

References & notes

Basic information from Dyer1.

Notes

1   Dyer, Elisha, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for the Year 1865 (corrected), 2 Volumes, Providence: E.L. Freeman & Son, 1893, Vol. 1, pp. 292 - 300  [AotW citation 14084]