Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted as Private, Company G, 106th Pennsylvania Infantry on 27 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged on a Surgeon's Certificate of disability on 24 February 1863.
References & notes
Service information from Ward.1 His Antietam wound from a casualty list published in the Philadelphia Inquirer of 29 September 1862, as Edwin Phillips.
1 Ward, Joseph R. C., History of the One-Hundred and Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 (2nd Ed.), Philadelphia: Grant, Faires & Rogers, 1906, pg. 349 [AotW citation 21628]