Person:Edwin Hoyt (4)

BIOGRAPHY: A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families By David W. Hoyt Providence - Printed for the Author by the Providence Press Co. Boston - Henry Hoyt 1871 - 559 Edwin, b. May 29, 1838, in Castleton, Vt.; m. Helen Maria Knight, April 14, 1864; a merchant; living in Detroit, Mich. He served 3 yrs. and 3 mos. In the 2d Mich. Cav. ; was promoted to 1st Lieut. and Adjutant ; served on staffs of Gen. Sam Carter, Col. A. P. Campbell, and Gen. J.T. Croxton ; engaged in battles before Corinth, and at Chaplin Hills or Perrysville; took a rebel flag at Elizabethtown, Ky.; was “with Carter's Raid” across the Cumberland, Mts. ; engaged at Chickamauga, Dandridge, Tenn., Franklin, Tenn., Pulaski, Florence, and many other places.