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(c. 1837 - 1906)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From East Granby, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 25 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 19 October 1862.
After the War
In 1870 he was working on his father's farm in East Hartford, CT. He applied for and was granted a pension as an invalid veteran in June 1879.
References & notes
His service from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862, which has him in Company F. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his State-supplied stone has him as Edward W. Pearce.
Birth
c. 1837 in CT
Death
05/22/1906; Hartford, CT; burial in East Granby Cemetery, East Granby, 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. 660 - 663 [AotW citation 5598]
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. 636 [AotW citation 27284]