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(1841 - 1909)
Home State: Rhode Island
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 19 year old carriage maker living with his mother and 2 siblings in Stonington, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company G, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 1 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in the hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 15 December 1862.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a ornamental and sign painter in South Kingstown, RI.
References & notes
His service from the Record,1 as Albert S Edwards. Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Ellen Frances Armstrong (1848-1932) in October 1868.
His brother Charles was also wounded at Antietam.
Birth
02/12/1841; Hopkinton, RI
Death
03/03/1909; Woonsocket, RI; burial in Riverside Cemetery, South Kingstown, RI
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. 349 [AotW citation 30787]