Edmund Rogers Halstead

In 1860 he was a 23 year old school teacher living with his parents and sister Jane, also a teacher, on the family farm in Vienna, Oneida County, NY. He enlisted as a Private on 20 September 1861 in Utica, NY and mustered as a Corporal in Company B, 57th New York Infantry on 2 October. He was promoted to Sergeant on 19 February 1862.

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

Basic information from the State of New York.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, as Edmund R. Holstead. His gravesite is on Findagrave, also as Holstead.

05/25/1837; Floyd County, NY

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in McConnellsville Cemetery, McConnellsville, NY