Matthew Andrew Edwards

In 1860 he was a 16 (18?) year old farmer living on his own near Charlotte in Mecklenburg County, NC. He enlisted at Ranalesburg, NC on 3 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 13 May. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was appointed 2nd Corporal on 26 April 1862 during the army reorganization.

He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 28 September and furloughed home on 3 October. He returned from furlough about January 1863 and was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left shoulder at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May. He was again on wounded furlough from June 1863 to 29 April 1864, when he was retired to the Invalid Corps for disability. He had been promoted to First Corporal on 14 May 1863.

By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Pineville near Charlotte, NC,

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Ella Kendrick (1851-1919) in December 1867 and they had 8 children.

1844 in NC

01/20/1917; burial in Flint Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Fort Mill, SC