Edward Waldo Stacy
Edward Waldo Stacy was born on April 9, 1842, in Harvard, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel and Lucy Stacy. His father was a paper maker who owned $100 of personal property by 1860. He grew up and attended school in Harvard, and by 1860, he was also working as a paper maker.
 
He enlisted in the Union army on August 13, 1862, and he mustered in as a private in Company G of the 36th Massachusetts Infantry on August 27. The following month, he observed that "we have some hard times and some good ones but taking it all together I enjoy it very well and am not sorry I enlisted." The regiment took part in the Battle of Fredericksburg, the siege of Vicksburg, the Knoxville campaign, and the Overland Campaign.
 
In September 1862, he noted that the "negroes all seem to understand that the war concerns them. Of course there are a good many abolitionists in the regiment and they do not hesitate to talk with them about slavery. The negroes say there has a good many of them run away within a year." He died on May 6, 1864, in the Battle of the Wilderness.
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DATABASE CONTENT
(3965)Stacy, Edward Waldo1842-04-091864-05-06
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: Private
  • Rank highest: Private
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 40

  • (11129) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, undated
  • (11132) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Mary Stacy, 7 September 1862
  • (11134) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Nathaniel Stacy, 11 September 1862
  • (11135) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Family, 14 September 1862
  • (11136) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Family, 21 September 1862
  • (11137) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 30 September 1862
  • (11138) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Nathaniel Stacy, 8 October 1862
  • (11139) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 14 October 1862
  • (11140) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 19 October 1862
  • (11141) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 9 November 1862
  • (11142) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Nathaniel Stacy, 14 December 1862
  • (11143) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 18 December 1862
  • (11144) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 27 December 1862
  • (11145) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Mary Stacy, 6 January 1863
  • (11146) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 17 January 1863
  • (11147) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Mary Stacy, 13 February 1863
  • (11148) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Nathaniel Stacy, 4 February 1863
  • (11149) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Mary Stacy, 8 February 1863
  • (11150) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 18 February 1863
  • (11152) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Mary Stacy, 20 February 1863
  • (11153) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 26 February 1863
  • (11155) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 19 March 1863
  • (11157) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 29 March 1863
  • (11162) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Nathaniel Stacy, 12 April 1863
  • (11164) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Nathaniel Stacy, 18 April 1863
  • (11165) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 16 July 1863
  • (11166) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Mary Stacy, 22 July 1863
  • (11168) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Nathaniel Stacy, 7 August 1863
  • (11170) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Mary Stacy, 14 August 1863
  • (11172) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Nathaniel Stacy, 19 August 1863
  • (11175) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 31 August 1863
  • (11176) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Nathaniel Stacy, 6 September 1863
  • (11177) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 17 September 1863
  • (11178) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Nathaniel Stacy, 27 September 1863
  • (11179) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 9 November 1863
  • (11180) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Lucy W. Stacy, 5 December 1863
  • (11182) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Mary Stacy, 23 February 1864
  • (11183) [writer] ~ Edward W. Stacy to Mary Stacy, 29 April 1864
  • (11187) [recipient] ~ Elisha Emerson to Edward W. Stacy, 31 January 1863
  • (11196) [associated with] ~ Joseph F. Haskell to Unknown, 23 May 1864

People - Records: 7

  • (3966) Stacy, Lucy W. is the [parent of] (3965) Stacy, Edward Waldo
  • (3969) Stacy, Mary is the [sibling of] (3965) Stacy, Edward Waldo
  • (3970) Stacy, Nathaniel is the [parent of] (3965) Stacy, Edward Waldo
  • (3974) Emerson, Elisha is the [cousin of] (3965) Stacy, Edward Waldo
  • (3982) Haskell, Joseph F. is the [friend of] (3965) Stacy, Edward Waldo
  • (3983) Whitney, John Marshall is the [friend of] (3965) Stacy, Edward Waldo
  • (3985) Lesure, Lovell A. is the [friend of] (3965) Stacy, Edward Waldo

Places - Records: 2

  • (2597) [birth] ~ Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  • (1013) [death] ~ Spotsylvania County, Virginia

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (905) [enlisted] [G] ~ 36th Massachusetts Infantry
SOURCES

1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Edward W. Stacy to Nathaniel Stacy, 11 September 1862, DL1732.003, Nau Collection; Edward W. Stacy to Family, 14 September 1862, DL1732.004, Nau Collection