| Name: EDWARDS, AMBROSE NEWTON (listed on muster roll as Ambrose N. Edwards) | |
| Rank: Promoted 2nd Sergeant 1862/05/15, Promoted 1st Sergeant 1862/07/25 | |
| Enlisted: 3 July 1861 at Westville, Dale County, Alabama, age 21 | |
| Service History: Present: Winchester, Virginia 1862/05/25, Cross Keys, Virginia 1862/06/08, Harpers Ferry 1862/09/13, Fredericksburg, Virginia 1862/12/13, Suffolk 1863/05/03; Absent sick: Cold Harbor 1862/06/27, Malvern Hill 1862/07/02, Cedar Mt. 1862/08/09, Hazel River 1862/08/23, Manassas Junction 1862/08/27-30, Chantilly 1862/09/01; Wounded: Sharpsburg, Virginia 1862/09/17;Absent wounded: Shepards Town, Virginia 1862/09/18; Captured: Gettysburg 1863/07/02; imprisoned at Ft. Delaware | |
| Date of Birth: 21 October 1840 | Place of Birth: Russell County, Alabama |
| Date of Death: 20 July 1933 | Place of Death: Strawn, Texas |
| Buried: Restland Cemetery, Dallas, Texas | |
| Father: Ambrose Edwards (b 16 April 1805 in Wilkes County, Georgia, d 6 October 1884 in Dale County, Alabama) | |
| Mother: Emeline James Gaulding (b 10 February 1810 in Virginia, d 4 January 1886 in Dale County, Alabama) | |
| Spouse(s): Joanna Columbia Ardis (b 4 February 1847 in Salem, Alabama, d 8 August 1922), daughter of Isaac Ardis and Jane Elizabeth White. Married 5 December 1865 in Dale County, Alabama. | |
| Children: Leroy Ardis, Walter White, Isaac Mansfield, Ambrose Edwin, Matt Marvin, McDonald, Becton Goodwin, and John M. | |
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| Residence(s): Dale County, Alabama; Greenville and Dallas, Texas | |
| Other:
Brother of Young Mansfield Edwards and William Archibald Edwards Promoted to Second Lieutenant but was captured before his commission arrived. Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia covered his casket during his funeral. County Clerk in Hopkins County, Texas (1880) Postmaster of Eliasville, Texas (March 27, 1886 - October 20, 1891) Member of the first Board of Regents for the University of Texas 1881-1882 Ambrose N. Edwards Memoir |
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| Photographs:
(Thanks to Dave Edwards for supplying this photo) |
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| Submitter: Georgia V. Fleming | E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net |
