E.A. DeCottes - Tallahassee, FL
N 30° 26.546 W 084° 17.159
16R E 760639 N 3370941
The grave of E.A. DeCottes is located in the Old City Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida, USA. In 1862, he was killed at the Battle of Sharpsburg during the U.S. Civil War.
Waymark Code: WMXCPT
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/27/2017
Views: 6
The headstone inscription reads:
E.A. DeCottes
Born in
Charleston S.C.
Oct 7, A.D. 1816
Private in the
8, Regement
Fla. Vols. C.S.A.
Fell at
Sharpsburg MD
Sept. 17, A.D.
1862.
The following information is from the WikiTree website:
"Edward was born in South Carolina in 1816. He married Antoinette M.T. Duquercron. Edward served with the Florida 8th Infantry during the Civil War and was killed in the battle at Sharpsburg, [MD]. When he passed away, he was buried in the Old City Cemetery, Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. His tombstone is inscribed: Born in Charleston, SC, Private in the 8 Regiment Florida Vols CSA, Fell at Sharpsburg, [MD]."
The following information about the Battle of Sharpsburg is from Wikipedia:
"The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign. It was the first field army–level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War to take place on Union soil and is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing."
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