Edward L. Stetson
Edward (or Edwin) L. Stetson was born around 1844 in Massachusetts to Jeremiah and Happy Stetson. His father was a carpenter who owned $500 of real estate and $32 of personal property in 1860. He grew up and attended school in Hanson, Massachusetts, and by the early 1860s, he was working as a shoemaker.
He enlisted in the Union army on September 21, 1861, and mustered in as a private in Company E of the 23rd Massachusetts Infantry one week later. He probably lied about his age in order to enlist, as his military records claim he was born in 1842. The men spent the following year stationed along the North Carolina coast. He was wounded in the Battle of Drewry’s Bluff on May 16, 1864, and he mustered out on October 13, 1864. He returned to Hanson after leaving the army, and he died there in 1869.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (1251) | Stetson, Edward L. | 1844 | 1869 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Private
- Rank out: Private
- Rank highest: Private
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 2
People - Records: 2
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (294) [enlisted] [E] ~ 23rd Massachusetts Infantry
SOURCES
1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; 1855 and 1865 New York State Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, available from Ancestry.com.
