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Federal (USV)

Private

Edmund Burke Hawley

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 20 year old shoemaker living with his widowed stepmother and 3 younger siblings in Schenectady, NY. Giving his occupation as a clerk, he enlisted there on 22 April 1861 and mustered on 17 May as a Musician in Company A, 18th New York Infantry. He was "reduced" to Private, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service basics from the State of New York,2 as Edmond B. Hawley, and his Muster Roll Abstract, online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840; Schenectady, NY

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3623]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 19, p. 1006 [AotW citation 31285]

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