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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward Moore

(? - 1889)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Berlin, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in his left shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September and transferred, possibly to Philadelphia, on 30 September 1862. He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA. He was paroled on 10 December 1864 and discharged on 30 May 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Frederick detail from the Patient List.3 Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

07/18/1889; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT

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. 656 - 663 [AotW citation 5566]

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. 632 [AotW citation 27190]

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 #586 [AotW citation 27218]

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