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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John C. Edson

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 23 year old farmer from Greenville, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 30 September and sent home on furlough on 21 October, but was back in a hospital in Richmond with smallpox from December 1862 to 13 March 1863. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware until sent to Point Lookout, MD and exchanged on 31 October 1864. He was paroled at Farmville, VA between 11 and 21 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 At least one family genealogist has him as John Calvin Edson Jr, born in GA in June 1832, with no death information.

Birth

c. 1838 in AL

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32475]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32476]

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