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MAJ Edward Foster Blake

Birth: 25 Nov 1837
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Death: 9 Aug 1862 (aged 24)
Culpeper County, Virginia, USA
Burial: Grove Street Cemetery

New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 41.3141657, Longitude: -72.9263455
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Major of the 5th Reg't Conn. Vols.
killed in battle at Cedar Mountain, Va and buried on the field in an unknown grave

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Eli Whitney Blake

1795–1886
Eliza Maria O'Brien Blake

1799–1876

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Mary Elizabeth Blake Bushnell

1823–1916
Henrietta Whitney Blake McWhorter

1825–1901
Charles Thompson Blake

1826–1897
Henry Taylor Blake

1828–1922
Robert Pierrepont Blake

1830–1836
George Augusta Blake

1832–1882
Eliza Maria Blake

1833–1836
Frances Louisa Blake Osborne

1835–1893
Eli Whitney Blake Jr

1836–1895
Eli Whitney Blake

1836–1895
James Pierrepont Blake

1839–1865
James Pierrepont Blake

1839–1865
Eliza Maria Blake

1841–1917
Eliza Maria Blake Rice

1841–1917

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Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016
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Major Edward Foster Blake (detail)
5th Connecticut Infantry Regiment
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CDV- Major Edward Foster Blake, Adjutant, 5th CT infantry. KIA at Cedar Mountain, VA. Buried in a mass grave. No photographer's imprint. Yale Class of 1858. (photo courtesy: the Vacant Chair)

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Edward F. Blake graduated at Yale College in 1858 and studied law in New Haven before entering the the war. Source: The Military and Civil History of Connecticut During the War of 1861-65 by Croffut & Morris (New York, 1869), pp. 218-19 and opp. p. 218 for the engraving.

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