[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas F. Edwards

(c. 1833 - 1917)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 26 year old laborer in Norwich, CT. He enlisted on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and transferred to Baltimore or Philadelphia on the 30th. He was discharged for disability on 12 February 1863.

After the War

By 1870 he was again a laborer in Norwich, his siter-in-law Mary helping with his children.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report, as Corporal L.F. Edwards, and the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Harriet L. Shore (1841-1866) in March 1863 and they had two children.

Birth

c. 1833 in CT

Death

02/01/1917; Norwich, CT; burial in Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, 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. 340 [AotW citation 30723]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #611 [AotW citation 30725]

« Search for another Person