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Pitt Edgar Wadhams

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m. 1832

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Name	Pitt Edgar Wadhams
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	21 Feb 1836	Westport, Essex, New York, United States
Military^[1]		38 NY Co. K
Death^[1]	3 May 1863	Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 United States. Adjutant General's Office. Town clerks' registers of men who served in the Civil War, ca. 1861-1867. (Albany [New York]: New York State Archives and Records Administration, 1991).

b. 21 Feb 1836 Westport; mother = Sophia Southard; burial site unknown
Stevens, Harriet Weeks Wadhams. Wadhams genealogy : preceded by a sketch of the Wadham family in England, with illustrations. (New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, c1913).

Pitt Edgar, b. 21 Mar., 1836; d. 3 May, 1863.
He was a soldier in the Civil War, having enlisted 24 May, 1861, as a Private in Company
K, Thirty-eighth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry. In the first battle of Bull Run he was severely wounded. He recovered and returned to his regiment, and in the battle of Chancellorsville, Va., was shot in the right temple and instantly killed. His bravery was much commended by his comrades.