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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Edwin R. Snyder

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farm worker living on the Horation Hedges place at Chester/Waupun, Dodge County, WI. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot through his bowels in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a field hospital near the battlefield but died there of wounds on 27 September 1862 and was buried on the field.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which lists him as Private Edwin F. Snyder. Service basics from Bryant.2 Wound detail from a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840 in CANADA

Death

09/27/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 4195]

2 Bryant, Edwin Eustace, History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Madison: Arthur H Clark Co. for the Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891, pg. 419 [AotW citation 15222]

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