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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward Blumley

(c. 1825 - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Norwich, he enlisted on 26 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 1 October.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was released on 8 October 1862 and reenlisted on 21 December 1863. He was captured in action again, on 7 May 1864 at Port Walthall Junction, VA on the Richmond-Petersburg Railroad and died while a prisoner at Andersonville, GA on 6 October 1864, age 39.

After the War

In 1866 he was recovered from his original burial at Andersonville by the city of Norwich - one of the "Andersonville Nine:" Norwich soldiers who died there and could be identified - and was reinterred in Yantic Cemetery.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from the Record.2 His age at death from Malcom M. Dana's The Norwich Memorial (1873). His gravesite is on Findagrave; the return of his remains to Norwich from Melodye A. Whatley's Stories from Yantic Cemetery (2015).

Birth

c. 1825

Death

10/06/1864; Andersonville, GA; burial in Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, CT

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]

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. 340 [AotW citation 30611]

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