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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Charles John Edwards

(c. 1842 - 1864)

Home State: Rhode Island

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old saddler's apprentice in Westerly, RI. Giving his residence as Stonington, he enlisted on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Rifle Company D, 3rd Connecticut Infantry on 11 May. He mustered out on 12 August. He enlisted again, on 11 September 1861, and mustered as a Private in Company G, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September. He was promoted to Corporal on 12 March 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was reduced to Private, date not given, and reenlisted on 27 March 1864. He was promoted back to Corporal on 27 March 1864 but was captured at Drewry's Bluff, VA on 16 May and died a prisoner at Andersonville, GA on 2 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 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha E. Gavitt (1844-1893) in January 1863.

His brother Albert was also wounded at Antietam.

Birth

c. 1842; Hopkinton, RI

Death

09/02/1864; Andersonville, GA; burial in Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville, GA

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, pp. 41, 348 [AotW citation 30783]

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