Edwin E. Norton
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Jump to navigationJump to searchEdwin E. Norton was a Captain in the 24th Michigan Infantry / Company H.
Antebellum
War Career
- Enlisted on August 16, 1862 in the 24th Michigan Infantry / Company F at Detroit, Michigan
- Mustered on ? for a 3 year term of service
- 25 years old
- Sergeant Major August 16, 1862
- Commissioned 1st Lieutenant of Company E on December 24, 1862
- Wounded in action on July 1, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg
- Commissioned Captain of Company H on July 9, 1863
- Mustered September 18, 1863
- Taken prisoner in action at the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864
- Returned to regiment on March 12, 1865
- Mustered out at Detroit, Michigan on June 30, 1865
Post-War Career
Family
Notes
Sources
- Michigan and George H. Turner, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865. Volume 24. (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Ihling bros. & Everard, printers, 1900). (Page 110)
Categories:
- Michigan Soldiers
- 24th Michigan Infantry
- Michigan Officers
- Soldiers from Wayne County, Michigan
- Soldiers from Detroit, Michigan
- Source: RSMVCW (24) 0110
- Michigan Wounded
- 24th Michigan Infantry Wounded
- Michigan Wounded at Gettysburg
- 24th Michigan Infantry Wounded at Gettysburg
- Michigan Prisoners
- 24th Michigan Infantry Prisoners
- Michigan Prisoners at the Wilderness
- 24th Michigan Infantry Prisoners at the Wilderness