Sexton, Edgar T.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 18, credited to Manchester, VT Unit(s): 14th VT INF Service: enl 8/28/62, m/i 10/21/62, Pvt, Co. C, 14th VT INF, d/dis 6/24/63 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 1843, Dorset, VT Death: 06/24/1863 Burial: East Dorset Cemetery, Dorset, VT Marker/Plot: 10 Gravestone photographer: Tom Boudreau Findagrave Memorial #: 51071673 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Not Found Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: WPA Graves Registration Card indicates that this is a cenotaph. DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice  East Dorset Cemetery, Dorset, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. |
Background
Edgar T. Sexton served in the 14th regiment, also Company H, and died after the Battle of Wolf's Run, in Northern Virginia, of disease. He left a father, (one of the largest sheep farmers in the region) stepmother, and 3 sisters. Harvey was the Great-grandson of George Sexton, of Manchester, Vermont, one of our Revolutionary War soldiers, whose diary of having served in the Battle of Bennington is part of the archives in the Vermont Historical Society, in Barre VT.
Courtesy of Michele Pagan.