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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Edmond Tilley

(? - 1864)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Waco, TX as a Private in Company E, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 July 1861. He was promoted to Sergeant by August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was elected 2nd Lieutenant in October 1863 and promoted to First Lieutenant the same month. He was killed on 6 May 1864, probably in action in the Wilderness, VA.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as Edmond Tilly.

Death

05/06/1864; Wilderness, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 155-157 [AotW citation 1778]

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 26654]

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