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(1829 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 50th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 39 year old farmer with a small place at Blackshear in Pierce County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 and mustered as 4th Sergeant of Company A, 50th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 25 September 1862, when he died there of disease.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave; that memorial has him as Edmund Franklin Thomas - I've found no source that gives him a middle name.
He married Martha Dowling (1827-1875) in 1847 and they had 8 children. Martha's brother Darling was also in Company A and at Frederick in September 1862.
Birth
09/04/1820; Liberty County, GA
Death
09/25/1862; Ft. Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 3108]
2 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 34824]