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Pratt, Edward R.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 23, credited to Putney, VT
Unit(s): 8th VT INF
Service: enl 12/9/61, m/i 2/18/62, 2SGT, Co. I, 8th VT INF, kia, Port Hudson, 6/14/1863

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VITALS

Birth: abt 1838, Walpole, NH
Death: 06/14/1863

Burial: Buried in an unmarked grave, , LA
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer:
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

Cenotaph: East Putney Cemetery, Putney, VT
Marker/Plot: Parker Plot
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 17864512

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, father John, 8/31/1871, not approved
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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Died in Louisiana

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CENOTAPH:




Cenotaph/Monument in East Putney Cemetery

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Obituary

EIGHTH REGIMENT
List of killed and wounded in the 8th regiment, Vermont Volunteers, in the fight before Post Hudson, La., June 14th, 1863:
KILLED
Sergt. E. R. Pratt, Putney, I

Source: Montpelier Daily Journal, July 2, 1863.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.