Eldridge G. Stevenson
Mustered into service as a Private on July 29, 1861
Died 12 September 1861
Buried Soldiers Home National Cemetery, Washington D.C.
Died 12 September 1861
Buried Soldiers Home National Cemetery, Washington D.C.
Photo courtesy Eric Lowman
Private Stevenson was one of the first soldiers from Company E to die of disease shortly after arriving in Washington D.C. at the start of the war.
He died in the Patent Office Hospital of intermittant fever.
He died in the Patent Office Hospital of intermittant fever.