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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward Blumley

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Lebanon, he mustered into Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 1 October 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 21 December 1863, was captured in action (date not given), and died at Andersonville, GA on 6 October 1864.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1. Details from Ingersoll (pg. 373).

Notes

1   Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 135  [AotW citation 16466]