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E. Chapman
(1842 - 1862)
Home State: Ohio
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Ohio Infantry
Before Antietam
A 19 year old carpenter's son from Lorain County, OH, he enlisted on 24 June 1861 as a Private in Company H, 8th Ohio Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of Ohio,1 which lists him as Edson C. Chatman. Details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph kindly shared by Randy Peterson of Nome, ND; he offered the original image for sale on ebay. There's a pencilled note on the back that "Edison" [sic] was "Laura Collester's brother." She was Laura Rowena Chapman Collester (1853-1932).
More on the Web
His name is on the Huntington, OH Civil War Memorial (via the HMDB).
Birth
02/05/1842; Huntington, OH
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Old Huntington Cemetery, Huntington, OH
1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 2, pp. 250 - 256 [AotW citation 14749]