Husband of Alida Bullard~Freeman~Calkins
(married, Nov. 15, 1875, Ossian, Iowa)
*No children were born to this union.
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Obituary is published in The Spirit Lake Beacon, May 22, 1891.
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*Note: Local library cemetery records have his birth year as 1846, but obituary says 1844.
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Civil War Veteran
Co K 38th Iowa Infantry
"The Martyr Regiment"
Co I 34th/38th Iowa Consolidated Infantry
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From military records:
Freeman, Edgar. Age 18. Residence Winneshiek County,Iowa nativity New York. Enlisted Aug. 22, 1862 into 38th Iowa. Mustered Nov. 4, 1862. Transferred to Company I, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-eighth Consolidated, Jan. 1, 1865.
Mustered out Aug. 15, 1865, Houston, Texas.
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The 38th Iowa was nicknamed the Martyr Regiment because over a third of its number died of disease in Louisiana & Mississippi in the latter months of 1863 shortly after the Siege of Vicksburg.Others were discharged disabled and died on the trip home or soon after. There were so few able bodied men left that the 38th Iowa was combined with the 34th Iowa Infantry.
*Military information provided by: K L Bonnett
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(married, Nov. 15, 1875, Ossian, Iowa)
*No children were born to this union.
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Obituary is published in The Spirit Lake Beacon, May 22, 1891.
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*Note: Local library cemetery records have his birth year as 1846, but obituary says 1844.
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Civil War Veteran
Co K 38th Iowa Infantry
"The Martyr Regiment"
Co I 34th/38th Iowa Consolidated Infantry
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From military records:
Freeman, Edgar. Age 18. Residence Winneshiek County,Iowa nativity New York. Enlisted Aug. 22, 1862 into 38th Iowa. Mustered Nov. 4, 1862. Transferred to Company I, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-eighth Consolidated, Jan. 1, 1865.
Mustered out Aug. 15, 1865, Houston, Texas.
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The 38th Iowa was nicknamed the Martyr Regiment because over a third of its number died of disease in Louisiana & Mississippi in the latter months of 1863 shortly after the Siege of Vicksburg.Others were discharged disabled and died on the trip home or soon after. There were so few able bodied men left that the 38th Iowa was combined with the 34th Iowa Infantry.
*Military information provided by: K L Bonnett
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Husband of Alida Bullard~Freeman~Calkins
(married, Nov. 15, 1875, Ossian, Iowa)
*No children were born to this union.
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Obituary is published in The Spirit Lake Beacon, May 22, 1891.
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*Note: Local library cemetery records have his birth year as 1846, but obituary says 1844.
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Civil War Veteran
Co K 38th Iowa Infantry
"The Martyr Regiment"
Co I 34th/38th Iowa Consolidated Infantry
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From military records:
Freeman, Edgar. Age 18. Residence Winneshiek County,Iowa nativity New York. Enlisted Aug. 22, 1862 into 38th Iowa. Mustered Nov. 4, 1862. Transferred to Company I, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-eighth Consolidated, Jan. 1, 1865.
Mustered out Aug. 15, 1865, Houston, Texas.
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The 38th Iowa was nicknamed the Martyr Regiment because over a third of its number died of disease in Louisiana & Mississippi in the latter months of 1863 shortly after the Siege of Vicksburg.Others were discharged disabled and died on the trip home or soon after. There were so few able bodied men left that the 38th Iowa was combined with the 34th Iowa Infantry.
*Military information provided by: K L Bonnett
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(married, Nov. 15, 1875, Ossian, Iowa)
*No children were born to this union.
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Obituary is published in The Spirit Lake Beacon, May 22, 1891.
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*Note: Local library cemetery records have his birth year as 1846, but obituary says 1844.
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Civil War Veteran
Co K 38th Iowa Infantry
"The Martyr Regiment"
Co I 34th/38th Iowa Consolidated Infantry
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From military records:
Freeman, Edgar. Age 18. Residence Winneshiek County,Iowa nativity New York. Enlisted Aug. 22, 1862 into 38th Iowa. Mustered Nov. 4, 1862. Transferred to Company I, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-eighth Consolidated, Jan. 1, 1865.
Mustered out Aug. 15, 1865, Houston, Texas.
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The 38th Iowa was nicknamed the Martyr Regiment because over a third of its number died of disease in Louisiana & Mississippi in the latter months of 1863 shortly after the Siege of Vicksburg.Others were discharged disabled and died on the trip home or soon after. There were so few able bodied men left that the 38th Iowa was combined with the 34th Iowa Infantry.
*Military information provided by: K L Bonnett
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