The Edgerton Database |
Allton L. Edgerton, son of Edwin and Celia Ann (Warren) Edgerton.
Mary J. ---- Allton L. Edgerton, of Hartford, Connecticut,
enlisted as a private on September 20, 1862 and served in the 22nd
Connecticut Infantry Regiment (Company D).
He died of disease at Miner’s Hill, Virginia on January 6 or 7, 1863 –
service records say the 6th, while his gravestone says the 7th (see Adjutant
General, Connecticut: Record of Service of Men during War of Rebellion;
Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Hartford, Connecticut, 1889). Mary J. Edgerton, widow of Alton L. Edgerton,
applied for a Civil War Pension on April 14, 1868. According to the pension application, Alton
had served in Company D, 22nd Regiment, Connecticut Infantry (see National
Archives Pension Applications; Application #17118, Certificate #14345). There is no further record of Allton’s widow, Mary
J. Edgerton, nor of any children born to the couple. |