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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward Doyle

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 23 year old bootmaker in Stoughton, he enlisted on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 19th Massachusetts Infantry on 28 August. He was reported missing in action at Glendale, VA on 30 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded, his skull fractured, and captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled, date not given, and was treated at a regimental hospital and a hospital in Annapolis, MD. He was discharged on 14 April 1864. He enlisted again, on 19 July 1864 for 3 years in Company B, 13th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, but was listed as a deserter as of 5 June 1865.

References & notes

His service from Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,2 which has him in Company D. The History 3 has him in Company C at Antietam. His birthplace from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1838 in IRELAND

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 475; Vol. 7, pg. 163 [AotW citation 17913]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 137 [AotW citation 31237]

3 Waitt, Ernest Linden (compiler), History of the Nineteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865, Salem (MA): The Salem Press Co., 1906, p. 147 [AotW citation 31238]

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