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Barney, Edwin A.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 27, credited to Monkton, VT
Unit(s): 6th VT INF
Service: enl 9/25/61, m/i 10/15/61, CPL, Co. A, 6th VT INF, wdd, Savage's Staton, 6/29/62, pow, Savage's Station, 6/29/62, prld 8/3/62, pr SGT 8/22/63, reen 12/15/63, prld 8/3/62, wdd, Wilderness, 5/5/64, pr 1SGT, 11/1/64, comn 2LT, 11/12/64 (12/15/64), pr 1LT, 6/4/65 (6/17/65), m/o 6/26/65

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VITALS

Birth: 1834, Cambridge, VT
Death: 05/13/1906

Burial: West Cemetery, Middlebury, VT
Marker/Plot: 230
Gravestone photographer: Jennifer Snoots
Findagrave Memorial #: 35788157

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 11/20/1869
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: None

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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

West Cemetery, Middlebury, VT

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Obituary

MIDDLEBURY

Word has been received here that Captain Edward Barney, a former resident of this village, but now of North Ferisburgh, died at his home in that village Sunday morning at the age of 65 years. He is survived by a wife and daughter, Mrs. Alice Sprague of Brandon. The remains will be brought here this morning on the 9:45 train and taken to the West cemetery for burial in the family lot. The funeral will be held at his late home in North Ferrisburgh this morning at eight o'clock. Captain Barney was a member of the 6th Vermont regiment.

Source: Burlington Free Press, May 15, 1906
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.