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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward Sabin Parkhurst

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Windham, CT, he enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died on 20 June 1863, place and cause not found.

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

c. 1840; Pomfret, CT

Death

06/20/1863; burial in South Cemetery, Pomfret, 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. 346 [AotW citation 30769]

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