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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Edward Miller

"Ned"

(? - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company K, 26th Alabama Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He returned to duty on 5 February 1863, and was promoted to Corporal, date not given. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and held at Fort Delaware, but he died there of a lung infection on 27 September 1863.

References & notes

His service from Fincham's roster1, sourced from Tod L. Molsworth's O'Neal's 26th Alabama: the Little Regiment that Did (2000). His memorial is on Findagrave.

Death

09/27/1863; Pea Patch Island, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ

Notes

1 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Alabama, Published 2005, first accessed 23 August 2020, <https://ranger95.com/civil_war/alabama/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/26ala_inf/26th_ala_inf_roster_k.htm [AotW citation 25559]

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