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Federal (USV)

Private

Edwin Alling

(c. 1838 - 1899)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From East Windsor, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 8 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 6 October 1862 and promoted to Corporal on 6 March 1863. He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864, was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA (as Edwin Ailing), and was paroled on 10 December 1864. He was discharged on 8 June 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

01/20/1899; burial in Veterans Cemetery, Darien, CT

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 631 [AotW citation 27209]

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