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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward A. Stone

(c. 1838 - 1921)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Elkhart County, he enlisted at Waterloo, IN and mustered on 29 July 1861 as a Private in Company G, 19th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left ankle in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged on 7 February 1863 and began receiving a pension for disability in March. He enlisted again (drafted?) on 15 October 1864 as a Private in Company K, 29th Indiana Infantry and mustered out with them on 26 June 1865.

After the War

In 1870 he was a carpenter in Corunna in De Kalb County, IN but by 1880 was a carpenter in La Porte, IN. He was still working his trade there when he was admitted to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Wood, WI on 8 November 1917. He was transferred to the Home in Danville, IL on 23 December 1920 and died there of cerebral hemorrhage on 6 May 1921.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General1 and his Pension Card, online form fold3. Personal details from the Registers 2 and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amelia (?; 1845-1916) and they had at least 2 children.

Birth

c. 1838 in MI

Death

05/06/1921; Danville, IL; burial in Danville National Cemetery, Danville, IL

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, pp. 402, 679 [AotW citation 33313]

2 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938, record #15867 [AotW citation 33314]

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