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(1842 - 1862)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Enfield, MA, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 14 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 (?).
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army General Hospital in Frederick, MD on 17 September and sent to Washington, DC on 21 September. He died of wounds on 30 September 1862, age 20, probably in a US Army hospital in Washington, DC.
References & notes
Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has him as Edward Augustus Hager. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
There's something odd about his military information: it is highly unlikely, practically impossible, that he would have been admitted to a hospital in Frederick on the same day he was wounded at Antietam. It is more likely he was wounded/injured at least a few days earlier, but I have found no information on that.
Birth
06/10/1842; Enfield, MA
Death
09/30/1862; Washington, DC; burial in Quabbin Park Cemetery, Ware, MA
1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 643 - 663 [AotW citation 5413]
2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 621 [AotW citation 26992]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #42 [AotW citation 27005]