Eldridge G. Stevenson

Mustered into service as a Private on July 29th, 1861

Died 12 September 1861

Buried Soldiers Home National Cemetery, Washington D.C.

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 intermittent fever.

Photo by Eric Lowman