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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Edwin D. Callen

(1840 - 1867)

Home State: New Jersey

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th New Jersey Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted as Sergeant in Company F, 13th New Jersey Infantry on 28 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for wounds at the US Army General Hospital, Frederick, MD on 26 November 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Toombs1. Service from Stryker.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave. His stone says he died of his Antietam wounds.

Birth

1840

Death

11/11/1867; Newark, NJ; burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, NJ

Notes

1   Toombs, Samuel, Reminiscences of the War ... the Thirteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, Orange (NJ): The (Orange) Journal, 1878, pg. 22  [AotW citation 7859]

2   State of New Jersey, Adjutant-General's Office, and William Scudder Stryker, Adjutant General, Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Trenton: John L. Murphy, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1876, Vol. 1, pg. 646  [AotW citation 17044]