Albert A. Edge

A cooper's son, in 1860 he was a 20 year old harness-maker's apprentice living with his parents and 7 younger siblings in Athens, GA. He enlisted there on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 3rd Georgia Infantry on 4 May in Augusta, GA.

He was in action with his company at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was slightly wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 4 May 1863 and was with his company to the end of the war, surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he was a worker in a shoe factory and lived in Watkinsville, GA, but by 1872 and to at least 1874 had his own shop there making boots, shoes, and harnesses.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His presence at Sharpsburg and his nickname from a piece in the Athens Southern Banner of 1 October 1862, thanks to Laura Elliott. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1870, and advertisements in the Athens Southern Watchman of of 9 October 1872 and 20 May 1874. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has his birth in 1843.

He married Sarah J. "Sallie" Dawson (later Higgins, 1842-1918) in September 1870 and they had 3 daughters.

c. 1840 in GA

1879; burial in Watkinsville Cemetery, Watkinsville, GA