Soldier: Ephraim W. Edwards
Regiment: 18th. Regiment, US Regular Army
Company: A
Age: 53
Date Entering Service: March 10, 1862
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out on March 10, 1865
Battles in which he fought:
Mill Springs, Ky.
Shiloh, Tenn. April 6-7, 1862
Corinth, Miss. May 30, 1862
Perryville, Ky. October 8, 1862
Stone River, Tenn. December 31, January, 1863
Chickamauga, Ga. September 19-20, 1863
Mission Ridge
Resaca, Ga.
Kenesaw Mountain, Ga.
Siege of Atlanta, Ga. August 1-September 2,1864
Other interesting information discovered:
Regiment lost during service 9 Officers and 209 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 6 Officers and 246 Enlisted men by disease. Total 470.
Date of Death: December 31, 1876
Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington
Adopted by: Morrow County Veterans Services
Researcher: Patrick Drouhard