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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Edwin R. Cunningham

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Company A, 6th Georgia Infantry on 15 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company G, First South Carolina Infantry in August 1864 and was serving with them to at least 31 December 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Henderson.1 His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the Milledgeville, GA Southern Recorder of 21 October 1862, from Laura Elliot.

Notes

1   Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 1, pg. 754  [AotW citation 21116]