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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John H. Edwards

(c. 1839 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A minister's son, in 1860 he was an unmarried 22 year old farmer living with his parents and 5 siblings on their modest farm in Rockdale, Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Eastville, AL on 12 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 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 back with his company by the battle of Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was killed at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

His brothers Blanton (b. 1834) and Willis were also in Company E; Blanton enlisted in February 1863.

Birth

c. 1839 in GA

Death

07/03/1863; Gettysburg, PA

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 32477]

2 State of Alabama, State Archives, and Dr. Edwin C. Bridges, director, and staff, Alabama Department of Archives & History, Published c.2000, first accessed 08 July 2005, <http://www.archives.state.al.us/index.html> [AotW citation 32478]

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