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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Edward Collins

(c. 1831 - 1863)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

A 30 year old laborer in Monmouth, ME (or Cork, Ireland), he enlisted on 15 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given, and was mortally wounded, date and place not given. He died of wounds on 4 May 1863 in Washington, DC.

References & notes

Antietam casualty information from Hyde.1 His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1831; County Cork, IRELAND

Death

05/04/1863; Washington, DC; burial in US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, DC

Notes

1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6687]

2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, pg. 190 [AotW citation 20817]

3 State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000 [AotW citation 29351]

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