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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Edward Mitchell

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 19 year old farmer at Oakland, Edgefield District, he enlisted as Private, Company E, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861. He was promoted to 2nd Sergeant at the reorganization of 13 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Swain.1

His brother Paul was wounded on Maryland Heights and killed at Gettysburg.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 589 [AotW citation 24593]

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