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E.W. Gibbons
(1831 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 29 year old cabinet maker and painter in Middletown, CT. He had been First Lieutenant, Company G, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery in 1861. He mustered as Captain of Company B, 14th Connecticut Infantry on 20 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He led his company in Maryland.
The rest of the War
He was mortally wounded in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December and died on 19 December 1862. He was buried on "a pleasant hillside" near camp at Falmouth, VA. His remains were later returned to Middletown.
References & notes
Basic information from Goddard.1 Service and additional details from Page.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph at the Library of Congress.
He married Susan Emily Prior (1834-1891) in November 1853 and they had 2 sons.
Birth
11/09/1831; New York City, NY
Death
12/19/1862; Falmouth, VA; burial in Mortimer Cemetery, Middletown, CT
1 Goddard, Henry Perkins, and Calvin Goddard Zon, editor, The Good Fight That Didn't End, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008, pp. 52 - 58 [AotW citation 9338]
2 Page, Charles D., History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry, Meriden (CT): The Horton Printing Co., 1906, pp. 98, 107, 389 - 90 [AotW citation 9347]