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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward P. Duffey

(1843 - 1911)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old farmer in Jasper, he mustered as Private, Company K, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He returned to duty in February 1863 and reenlisted on 24 January 1864. He was wounded again, at New Hope Church, GA on 27 May 1864. He transferred to Company G, 70th Indiana Infantry on 4 November 1864 in Atlanta. He was consolidated into Company D, 33rd Indiana Infantry in Washington, DC on 6 June 1865 and mustered out with them on 21 July in Louisville, KY.

References & notes

Service from Brown1 and the Historical Data Systems database (as Edward Duffy). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

05/15/1843

Death

12/17/1911; Sandborn, IN; burial in Sandborn Cemetery, Sandborn, IN

Notes

1 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 623 [AotW citation 18802]

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