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Federal (USV)

Private

Lemuel H. Edwards

(c. 1825 - ?)

Home State: New Jersey

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th New Jersey Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at age 37 in Company D, 13th New Jersey Infantry on 2 August 1862 and mustered as Private.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sent to the Smoketown Hospital sick on 12 November, then Camp B at Frederick, MD. He was then at Camp Convalescent, Washington, DC, and the Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, VA, where he was discharged 26 July 1863.

References & notes

Basic information from the D Society1.

Birth

c. 1825; Passaic County, NJ

Notes

1   D Society, Veterans, Co. D 13th NJ Infantry, Historical Sketch of Co. D, 13th Regiment, N.J. Vols., Newark (NJ): D.H. Gildersleeve & Co., 1875, pp. 65 - 66  [AotW citation 17215]