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Federal (USV)

Private

Edwin L. Parsons

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 14 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He died, probably of disease, at Knoxville, MD on 8 November 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He had a twin brother Edward L Parsons (1842-1909), which can be confusing to a researcher.

Birth

08/19/1842; Hartford, CT

Death

11/08/1862; Knoxville, MD; burial in West New Boston Cemetery, Sandisfield, MA

Notes

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 5416]

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 26997]

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