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E.L. Barney
(1832 - 1864)
Home State: Vermont
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Vermont Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 28 year old merchant living with his father George, a successful marble manufacturer, and siblings in Swanton, Franklin County, VT. He was commissioned and mustered as Captain, Company K, 6th Vermont Infantry on 15 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his head in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Major of the regiment on 15 October, to Lieutenant Colonel on 18 December 1862, and Colonel on 18 March 1863. He was mortally wounded, again by a gunshot to his head, on 5 May 1864 in the Wilderness, VA and died of wounds on 10 May 1864.
References & notes
His service from the Revised Roster.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph at the Medford (MA) Historical Society.
He married Sarah Fisher Burton (1833-1859) in 1856 in Dubuque, IA, and they had a son George (1858-1909). He married again, Martha M. Blake (1833-1896) in October 1862.
Birth
04/13/1832; Swanton, VT
Death
05/10/1864; burial in Church Street Cemetery, Swanton, VT
1 Peck, Theodore S., Adjutant General, and The Vermont Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers and Lists of Vermonters who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion 1861-66, Montpelier: Press of the Watchman Publishing Co., 1892, pp. 178-79, 181, 210 [AotW citation 29451]