Edward Livingston Allen

Going by Livingston, in 1860 he was a 15 year old apprentice printer living with his parents and 4 siblings in Wayne Township, Passaic County, NJ. He enlisted on 8 August 1862, then a theology student, probably at Rutgers in New Brunswick, NJ, and he mustered on 25 August as a Corporal in Company K, 13th New Jersey Infantry.

He was with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

Hew saw action again at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, on the Atlanta Campaign, on the March to the Sea, and into North Carolina. He reported being wounded 3 times, was promoted to Sergeant on 9 January 1865, and mustered out with his Company on 8 June 1865 in Washington, DC.

In 1870 he was again a printer in Paterson, NJ, living with his parents and younger siblings while he completed his education in New York City and New Jersey. He was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church and was preaching in Fort Collins, CO by 1880. In 1900 he was a minister in Cape May, NJ and by 1910 he had retired and lived in Park Ridge, Bergen County, NJ.

He was granted a veteran's pension for disability in July 1879 which passed to his wife at his death in 1920.

His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 with details from his Pension Index Card, online from fold3, both as E. Livingston Allen. His nickname and presence at Antietam from Joseph Crowell's The Young Volunteer: The Everyday Experiences of a Soldier Boy in the Civil War (1906). Personal details from family genealogists, notably Lewis' Biographical, Genealogical and Descriptive history of the First Congressional District of New Jersey (Vol. 1, 1900), which has his birth on 16 July 1846, and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Margaret E "Maggie" Post (1849-1938) in August 1866 and they had at least 5 children.

Easily confused with another Edward Livingston Allen (1844-1910) who was a Private (possibly Corporal) in Companies H and D, 13th New York Infantry, and may also have been at Antietam.

07/10/1845; Paterson, NJ

04/09/1920; Park Ridge, NJ; burial in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus, NJ