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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Edward Eidson

(1820 - 1863)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 41 year old Mason in Edisto Mills, Edgefield District, he enlisted as Private, Company A, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 13 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Richmond for the first half of November then furloughed. He was killed at Chickamauga, GA on 20 September 1863.

References & notes

His service from Swain.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860-1920.

He married Mary Ellener Bush (1820-1891) about 1836 and they had 11 children.

Birth

1820; Edgefield District, SC

Death

09/20/1863; Chickamauga, GA

Notes

1 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 499 [AotW citation 24499]

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