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Sturtevant, Edward E. (1826-1862)

Name:
Sturtevant, Edward E. (1826-1862)
Title:
Printer, New Hampshire Courier
Printer, New Hampshire Statesman
Constable, City of Concord 1855-1861
Made recruiting officer for President Lincolns call for the troops.
Captain, Company I, First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, 1861
Captain, Company A, Fifth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, appointed October 12, 1861
Major, Company A, Fifth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, appointed July 30, 1862
Other Names:
Sturtevant, Edward Everett
Born:
08/07/1826
Birthplace:
Keene, NH
Died:
12/13/1862
Death Location:
Fredericksburg, VA
Residence:
Keene, NH
Concord, NH
Nationality:
American
Occupation:
Printer
Police Officer
Soldier
Father:
Sturtevant, George W. (1799-1875)
Mother:
Kilburn, Frances W. (18 -1875)
Notes:
First man from New Hampshire to enlist in Civil War

Augustus D. Ayling, Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866. (Concord, New Hampshire: Ira C. Evans, 1895), 20, 271.

Simon G. Griffin, A History of the Town of Keene, From 1732, When the Township was Granted by Massachusetts, to 1874, When It Became a City. (Keene, New Hampshire: Sentinel Printing Company, 1904), 647-648.
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