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(1829 - 1915)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 30 year old paper maker in Manchester, CT. He enlisted as a Sergeant in Company H, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 19 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in his arm and leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 10 March 1863.
After the War
By 1870 he was a "brass moulder" in Chatham, CT, and his 16 year old son Eugene worked "in a bell shop" - suggesting what Edwin was moulding brass for. In 1880 he was a quarryman in Sterling, CT. By 1910, then 80 years old, he had a farm there.
References & notes
Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862, which has him as Horace Brown. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880 and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Grant (b. 1831) in August 1850 in Connecticut and they had two sons, Eugene and Addison. He married again, Ruth A Carr (1842-1918) in June 1871 in Rhode Island and they had 3 more children.
Birth
11/16/1829; New London, CT
Death
11/11/1915; Sterling, CT; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Sterling, CT
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 5574]
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. 633 [AotW citation 27220]