Lucien Willis Edwards

A minister's son, going by Willis, in 1860 he was a 28 year old farmer living next door to his parents' place 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.

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

He was seriously wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and afterward absent from his company on furlough or on detail to the end of the war.

By 1880 he was farming in Jack County, TX - in the US Census that year his son Lamar, age 15, was listed as being in prison for "horse stealing."

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Lucious W Edwards, and the Archives,2 as Lucas W Edwards. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has him as Willis Lucian Edwards, and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Margaret Jane Cook (1837-1908) and they had 12 children between 1855 and 1881.

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

04/29/1832 in GA

03/27/1886; Gibtown, TX; burial in Gibtown Cemetery, Gibtown, TX