CIVIL WAR FOOT OFFICER SWORD PRESENTED TO LT EDWARD EDGERLY, 79TH PA VOLUNTEERS
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CIVIL WAR FOOT OFFICER SWORD PRESENTED TO LT EDWARD EDGERLY, 79TH PA VOLUNTEERS

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PRESERVING AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HISTORY, CIVIL WAR FOOT OFFICER SWORD PRESENTED TO LT EDWARD EDGERLY, 79TH PA VOLUNTEERS A nice example of a Civil War M1850 foot officer's sword that was presented to a hard-fought officer in a Pennsylvania regiment. The upper mount is engraved, "Presented to / Lieut Edward Edgerley / By Co. K 79th Regt / Pa. V." Edgerly (1837-1915) was a carriage maker in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when he enlisted 9/16/1861 and mustered in as 1st Sergeant, Co. K 79th PA Vols. on 9/16/1861, serving until muster out with the regiment in July 1865. The regiment was very active in the western theatre, from November 1862 as part of the 14th Army Corps, and a 1903 biography states that Edgerley was not absent from active duty for a single day from sickness or any other cause, participating in all the regiment's engagements. These included Perryville, Kentucky, Oct. 1862, where the regiment lost 37 killed, 149 wounded, and just 3 missing, after which he was promoted to 2nd Lieut

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