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Sgt Edwin B Fisher

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Sgt Edwin B Fisher Veteran

Birth
Death
14 Jun 1864 (aged 20–21)
Burial
Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
Plot
H-8750
Memorial ID
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Edwin B. Fisher, Sgt Co B 45th Ohio Infantry.
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 23rd Army Corps, at the time of his death. Orig. bur. near Sandtown Rd NE of Lost Mountain alongside James Leach, Co F 6th Tennessee, and among other men who died June 16, 1864. He may have been killed on the skirmish line on June 14, but the Union did not attack the line until June 15 and 16.

History of the 45th Ohio Roster on the web lists Edwin B Fisher death date as, Killed June 14, 1864, Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia. The VA gravesite locator has the wrong death date.

H-8749 H-8751
Edwin B. Fisher, Sgt Co B 45th Ohio Infantry.
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 23rd Army Corps, at the time of his death. Orig. bur. near Sandtown Rd NE of Lost Mountain alongside James Leach, Co F 6th Tennessee, and among other men who died June 16, 1864. He may have been killed on the skirmish line on June 14, but the Union did not attack the line until June 15 and 16.

History of the 45th Ohio Roster on the web lists Edwin B Fisher death date as, Killed June 14, 1864, Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia. The VA gravesite locator has the wrong death date.

H-8749 H-8751

Inscription

Co. "B", 45th Ohio Inf.

Gravesite Details

Edwin was 19 at the time of his enlistment on 8/7/1862. He was mustered in on 8/19/1862. He was killed at Pine Mt., Ga..


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