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Federal (USV)

Private

William A. Edwards

(c. 1840 - 1898)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 20 year old painter living with his parents and siblings 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 the left hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 28 March 1863.

After the War

In 1880 he was still painting houses in Norwich.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Julia L. Burdick (c. 1856-1911) in May 1874.

Birth

c. 1840 in CT

Death

03/20/1898; 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 30724]

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