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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Edward A. DeCottes

(1816 - 1862)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He mustered in to Company F, 8th Florida Infantry on 17 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Florida1, which lists him as Edward A. Decotts. Details from family genealogists.

Birth

10/07/1816; Charleston, SC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Old City Cemetery, Tallahassee, FL

Notes

1 State of Florida, Board of State Institutions, Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars, Live Oak (FL): Democrat Print, 1903, pp. 196 - 200 [AotW citation 15517]

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