From National Park Service Civil War Soidiers and Sailors database:
• Mills, Edwin C
• Union
• 23rd Regiment, Iowa Infantry
• Company I
• Rank in: Drummer
• Rank out: Drummer
• Film Number:M541 roll 18

From Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol 3, by Guy E Logan:
• Mills, Edwin C
• Age: 17
• Residence: Lewis [Iowa]
• Nativity: Connecticut
• Enlisted: 20 Jul 1862, as Drummer
• Mustered: 28 Aug 1862
• Mustered out: 26 Jul 1865, Harrisburg, Texas

Drummer Edwin C Mills' Civil War Service:
• 20 Jul 1862 -- Enlisted, age 17
• 28 Aug 1862 -- Mustered in, Company I, 23rd Iowa Infantry, Des Moines, Iowa
• until Feb 1863 -- Duty at St Louis, Camp Patterson, West Plains, Missouri
• 9-26 Feb 1863 -- March via Thomasville and Eminence to Iron Mountain, Missouri
• 9-12 Mar 1863 -- Moved to St Genevieve, Missouri
• 22-27 Mar 1863 -- Moved to Milliken's Bend, Louisiana
• 25-30 Apr 1863 -- Moved to Bruinsburg and Grand Gulf, Mississippi
• 30 Apr 1863 -- Anderson's Hill, Mississippi
• 1 May 1863 -- Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
• 2-3 May 1863 -- Bayou Pierre, Louisiana
• 16 May 1863 -- Battle of Champion's Hill (Baker's Creek), Mississippi
• 17 May 1863 -- Battle of the Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
• 18 May-4 Jul 1863 -- Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
• 5-10 Jul 1863 -- Advance on Jackson, Mississippi
• 10-17 Jul 1863 -- Siege of Jackson, Mississippi
• 13 Aug-3 Oct 1863 -- Duty at Carrollton, Brashear City, Berwick, Louisiana
• 3 Oct-17 Nov 1863 -- Western Louisiana Campaign (New Iberia, Vermillion Bayou)
• 17-23 Nov 1863 -- Moved to Brazos Santiago, Texas
• 27-30 Nov 1863 -- Fort Esperanza, Texas
• until Mar 1864 -- Duty at Indianola, Texas
• until 4 May 1864 -- Duty at Matagorda Island, Texas
• 4-15 May 1864 -- Moved to New Orleans and thence to join Major General Banks on Red River
• 16-22 May 1864 -- Joined at Simmesport, Louisiana and retreat to Morganza, Louisiana
• until Oct 1864 -- Duty at Morganza, Louisiana
• 6 Oct 1864 -- Simmesport, Louisiana
• 12 Oct 1864 -- Moved to Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas
• until Jan 1865 -- Duty at Duvall's Bluff and Arkansas
• 17 Feb 1865 -- Ordered to New Orleans, Louisiana and thence to Barrancas, Florida
• Mar-Apr 1865 -- Campaign against Mobile and its defenses
• 21 Mar-2 Apr 1865 -- Steele's March from Pensacola, Florida to Blakely, Alabama
• 27 Mar 1865 -- Occupation of Canoe Station, Alabama
• 2-9 Apr 1865 -- Siege of Fort Blakely, Alabama
• 9 Apr 1865 -- Assault and capture of Fort Blakely, Alabama
• 12 Apr 1865 -- Occupation of Mobile, Alabama
• until Jun 1865 -- Duty at Mobile, Alabama
• until Jul 1865 -- At Columbus, Georgia
• 26 Jul 1865 -- Mustered out, Harrisburg, Texas

Marriage:
19 Apr 1867
Mary Adelaide Wright
Lewis, Cass County, Iowa

Deaths Reported.
The following deaths were reported to the board of health yesterday:
Mills, Edwin C.; 50 years; 506 West Fourteenth; September 25; tuberculosis; burial in Union cemetery.
The Kansas City Daily Journal
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Vol XXXVIII, No 107, p3, c4
Fri 27 Sep 1895

From Leavenworth, Kansas, Veterans Center Death Register:
• Edwin C Mills
• Died: 25 Sep 1895
• Age: 50
• Place of death: Kansas City, Missouri
• Registration: #7994
• Organization: I, 23rd Iowa Infantry
• Comment: On furlough

From Missouri Record of Death Transcript:
Jackson County, Roll C19509, #1263
• Mills, Edwin C
• Male
• White
• Age: 50
• Died: 25 Sep 1895
• Married
• Born: Connecticut
• Place of death: 506 W 14th
• Cause of death: Tuberculosis

From cemetery records:
• Mills, Edwin Candee
• Age: 50
• Civil War, Company I, 23rd Iowa Infantry
• Burial: 26 Sep 1895
• Undertaker: Welden
• Burial fee: $8
• Section 9.1 Row 10 Grave 5 (unmarked grave)

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