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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Edwin F. Hobson

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 21st Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 23, from Stewart County, he mustered there as a Private in Company I, 21st Georgia Infantry on 17 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

He may be the "Lieut. E.F. Hobson" listed in the NY Times among those who died of wounds at the "White House" field hospital on the Line farm at Sharpsburg before 2 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19434]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30053]

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