Edward Morse Bliss

He was a 22 year old yeoman (farmer) in Worcester when he enlisted as Private, Company H, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 13 January 1862.

He was wounded by gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862:

The ball entered the right side of the thorax near the upper part, and has never been found. He raised some blood immediately, but none since. On the 24th day the wound was still open; he had some cough, but his general condition was very good.

He was admitted to the US Army hospital in the Jail Street School in Frederick, MD on 28 September 1862 and was discharged there for wounds on 22 December 1862.

At the 1880 US Census he was a clerk in a general store in Spencer, MA and he was postmaster there from 1890-93.

Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts.1. Hospital details from the Patient List.2 The medical quote from Frank Hastings Hamilton's Treatise on Military Surgery and Hygiene (1865, online). Personal details from Susan Harnwell's profile of him on her excellent Roster and Genealogies of the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

02/19/1840; Buckland, MA

12/02/1909; Spencer, MA; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Spencer, MA