Edward Hutchinson Robbins Revere

Grandson of the famous silversmith and Revolutionary rider, he attended Harvard College and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1849. On 10 September 1861, a physician in Boston, he enrolled for military service, and on 14 September was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the 20th Massachusetts Infantry, the same unit as his younger brother Paul Joseph Revere. He was captured at Ball's Bluff, VA on 21 October, was held in the prison in the Liggon tobacco factory in Richmond, VA, and was exchanged on about 15 February 1862.

He was shot and killed while caring for a wounded soldier on the battlefield at Antietam on 17 September 1862. He was honored by brevet to Lieutenant Colonel of Volunteers to date from the battle.

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave. The photograph here from a CDV offered at auction by Cowan's in December 2008.

7/23/1827; Boston, MA

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA