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(c. 1837 - ?)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Vicksburg, MS as a Private in Company G, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 27 April 1862. He was wounded in the shoulder at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June 1862, treated in a hospital in Richmond, VA, and returned to duty on 23 August.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He transferred to Captain Moody's Company, Madison (Louisiana) Light Artillery on 30 October 1862. He was sentenced on 19 May 1863 by a court martial to forfeit pay, charges not given (Gen. Orders No. 66, HQ Dept. Northern Va). He was surrendered with his battery at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865; his parole has his age as 28, 5' 10" tall, grey eyes, brown hair, a resident of Washita Parish, LA.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry; also as John Edley, Eadly, and Eddly. Personal details from family genealogists.
He (probably) married Honor Hannah Powers (1837-) in January 1857 in DeSoto County, MS.
Birth
c. 1837 in MS
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 28969]