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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward Lane

(1835 - 1883)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A successful farmer's son from Hartford, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged at the end of his term of enlistment on 24 September 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/01/1835; Westfield, MA

Death

10/06/1883; burial in Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, 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, p. 332  [AotW citation 30676]