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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Edward P. Lipscomb

(c. 1841 - 1864)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer at Tallahassee in Leon County, FL. He enlisted there on 20 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 5th Florida Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 9 September, left behind, and captured there on the 12th.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 22 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 15 October, furloughed home for 30 days on 20 October, and formally exchanged on 10 November 1862 to return to duty.

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder and chest in action in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and was taken to CSA General Hospital #9 in Richmond, VA "in a dying condition." He died there of his wounds on 1 June 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Lorena Bradley (1843-) in 1861.

Birth

c. 1841 in FL

Death

06/01/1864; Richmond, VA

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 34808]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #363 [AotW citation 34809]

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