Edwin Francis Jemison
Confederate soldier (1844–1862)
Edwin Francis Jemison (December 1, 1844 – July 1, 1862) was a Confederate soldier who served in the 2nd Louisiana Infantry Regiment from May 1861 until he was killed in action at the Battle of Malvern Hill.
Jemison's photograph has become one of the iconic portraits of the young soldiers of both the Confederate and Union armies. It was featured particularly on the cover of the American Russian-language magazine Amerika in 1991.
Early life
Edwin Francis Jemison was born on December 1, 1844, in Milledgeville, Georgia as the second-oldest of five sons of Robert Jemison and Sarah Caroline Jemison (née Stubb), who had married in 1841. Robert Jemison was a landowner, lawyer and newspaper editor. The family later moved to Jackson, Louisiana where they lived at the outbreak of the American Civil War. On January 26, 1861, Louisiana seceded from the United States to join the Confederate States.
American Civil War
Jemison enlisted on May 11, 1861, in Company B (Moore's Guards) of the 2nd Louisiana Infantry Regiment, and was among the war's early volunteers. He participated in the Peninsula Campaign under Maj. Gen.
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