EDWARD T. AMBROSE |
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Main Cemetery -- Area J |
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Edward Ambrose was born in 1843 in Duchess County, New York. His father had been born in England and his mother in Massachusetts. There were 5 boys and 3 girls in the family and when they moved to Rochester, they were engaged in farming. Edward wished to serve the Union and so, in 1861, he enlisted as did three of his brothers. In 1864, while in Company G of the 108 NY volunteers, Edward and his brother, Robert, were fighting together in heavy combat. Edward survived but tragically, Robert was kiilled. Unfortunately, after a hard day’s fighting, Edward was captured and taken to Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia but was soon reassigned to Salisbury Prison in North Carolina. He escaped for a very short time but was chased down by blood hounds and guards. He was recaptured and received harsher treatment as a result. Volunteering to fetch firewood, Edward again escaped and this time was not recaptured. After retiring from the army, Edward lived with his wife, Elizabeth (nee Vanderpool), and applied for a pension from New York State. For 21 years he worked on the railroad but later became a lock tender on the Erie Canal. He had suffered from his harsh treatment in the Confederate prisons, and, as a result, died from an illness attributed to that on October 24, 1906. Edward is considered a valiant warrior of the Civil War and is buried here, along with 80 other veterans of the armed conflict. |
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