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Glimpses of Soldiers’ Lives: Edward Cary
Private Edward A. Cary of Company I, 44th Virginia Infantry Regiment, in uniform and his sister, Emma J. Garland née Cary
Edward Cary, an 18-year-old from Drake’s Branch in Charlotte County, Virginia, enlisted with the 44th Virginia Infantry of the Confederate army on May 8th, 1861, as the American Civil War was barely beginning. He fought in an engagement at Rich Mountain, West Virginia, and the battle of Greenbrier River, West Virginia, where a four-hour fight drove the Confederates back to their entrenchments and left six dead.
At The Battle of Port Republic, Edward Cary fell. He was one of just two Confederate soldiers killed.
His brother William had returned to the regiment just a month earlier, on May 15th. He would remain with it, despite three periods of hospitalization, at least until September of 1864, when his name fades from the record.
More on his story here: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/SoldierbiosCary.html
- Digital ID: (digital file from original item) ppmsca 32599 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.32599
- Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-32599 (digital file from original item)
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
