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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Edwin A. Graves

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 49th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted on 8 August 1861 at Forestville for three years and mustered as Corporal, Company I, 49th New York Infantry on 28 August.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of his wounds at the Hoffman farm field hospital at Sharpsburg on 24 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/24/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 24, pg. 1246 [AotW citation 22527]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 227 [AotW citation 22529]

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