Name: EDWARDS, YOUNG MANSFIELD
Rank: Private
Enlisted: 3 July 1861 at Westville, Dale County, Alabama, age 19
Service History: Present: Winchester, VA, 1862/05/25, Cross Keys, VA, 1862/06/08, 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, Harper's Ferry, 1862/09/13, Fredericksburg, VA, 1862/12/13, Suffolk, VA, 1863/05/03, Battle Mount, VA, 1863/07/24, Chickamauga, GA, 1863/09/19-20, Raccoon Mt., TN, 1863/10/27, Lookout Valley, TN, 1863/10/28, Camel Station, 1863/11/16, Knoxville, TN 1863/11/20 & 29. Wounded: Sharpsburg, 1862/09/17. Absent, wounded: Shepards Town, VA, 1863/09/18. Absent, sick: Gettysburg, PA 1863/07/02-03. Absent, Captured: Dandridge, TN 1864/01/16, imprisoned at Ft. Delaware.
Date of Birth: 4 November 1842 Place of Birth: Russell County, Alabama
Date of Death: 1922 Place of Death: Hopkins County, Texas
Buried: City Cemetery, Sulphur Springs, 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): Martha E. Ardis (b 1843 in Russell County, Alabama, d 27 January 1903 in Brazoria, Texas); daughter of Archibald McCoy Ardis and Joanna Leticia White, widow of William B. Moore.
Children: 
Occupation: Merchant
Residence(s): Dale County, Alabama; Hopkins County, Texas
Other: Brother of Ambrose Newton Edwards and William Archibald Edwards
Photographs:

(Thanks to Dave Edwards for supplying this photo)

  

(Photos courtesy of Mary Flaws Jackson)

Submitter: Georgia V. Fleming E-mail:  hyacinth@ala.net