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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Morgan Lafayette Edge

(1841 - 1892)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker living with his parents, brother Joseph, and 2 slaves on their farm at Flint Hill in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted and mustered in Carrollton, GA on 15 August 1861 as a Private in Company F, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured at Charlestown, VA on 16 October, a prisoner at Harpers Ferry by 22 October, then sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore. He was transferred to Aikens' Landing, VA on 25 October for exchange and was furloughed to Carrollton, GA for 30 days on 12 November 1862.

He was promoted to Sergeant by March 1864 but deserted his unit on 2 October 1864 at Harrisonburg, VA and took an oath of allegiance to the United States at New Creek, WV on 13 October. There is no later record of him with the Legion (and he is not found among enlistments in the US Army).

After the War

By 1880 he was a farmer in the Fair Play district of Carroll County, GA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Jane Tyson (1849-1926) in February 1867 and they had 8 children.

Birth

06/10/1841 in GA

Death

12/02/1892; Carroll County, GA; burial in Powell Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Villa Rica, GA

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 33767]

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