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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Edward E. Aman

(c. 1833 - 1889)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 27 year old turpentine worker at Octavia in Early County, GA. He enlisted as a Corporal in Company G, 13th Georgia Infantry on 5 August 1861 in Richmond, VA.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, by gunshots to his face and in the back at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farm worker near Blakely in Early County, GA and in 1880 was farming his own place there.

References & notes

His service from Henderson,1 also as Edward Amon, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1833; Onslow County, NC

Death

11/22/1889; Blakely, GA; burial in Old Sardis Cemetery, Blakely, GA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7273]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 28279]

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