Edward W. Dorsey
Name: Edward W. Dorsey
Affiliation: Confederate
Unit: 2nd VA Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Williamsport/Downsville, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: n/a
Company: A
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Discharged due to physical disabilities (9 bullet holes were found in his jacket)
Source(s):
United States Census Bureau, “1890 Special Schedule – Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc.,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com; Daniel D. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1986), 132; Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998).
