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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward Maurice Weaver

(1842 - 1925)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Chaplin, CT. He enlisted on 15 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal on 1 October 1863 and reenlisted on 23 December. He was wounded again, at Cold Harbor, VA on 5 June 1864 and mustered out on 12 December 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a machinist living with his father in Windsor Locks, CT but he moved to California in 1875 and was a farmer and fruit grower in San Jose to at least 1920.

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 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Emma Angeline Robinson (1847-1942) in May 1869 and they had 3 children.

Birth

09/21/1842; Willimantic, CT

Death

04/20/1925; Santa Clara County, CA; burial in Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, CA

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. 339 [AotW citation 30732]

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