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Edward HR Revere

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Edward HR Revere (Dan Keleher Collection)

 

 Edward HR Revere1

 

Edward Hutchinson Robbins Revere was born in Boston, on July 23, 1827, to Joseph Warren Revere and Mary Robbins. He received his degree at Harvard Medical School in 1849. Following graduation, he studied in Paris before setting up a practice in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He enlisted in the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment on September 17, 1861, as an assistant surgeon. He was not the only Revere to fight in the Civil War: the 20th Regiment was under the command of his brother, Major Paul J. Revere. On October 21, 1861, while tending to the sick under fire (during which he was noted for his "cool, self-possessed deportment, his well directed energy, and his self-forgetfulness") at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in Virginia, Edward and his brother were taken prisoner by Confederate troops. Following an imprisonment of several months (during which Edward continued to tend to the sick and wounded), both he and Paul returned to camp on May 2, 1862. Edward died during the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, and is listed on the tablets at Memorial Hall. He was survived by his parents, his wife, Laura Porter Jordan, and his daughter, Mary Robbins. He is buried at the Mount Auburn Cemetery.

 

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Gordon Kwok. "Revere Brothers." Olde Colony Civil War Round Table. Olde Colony Civil War Round Table, http://sites.google.com/site/oldecolonycwrt/Home/revere-brothers.

 

Harvard's Civil War: a history of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. 1st ed. by Richard F. Miller, 26-177.

 

"Fifty Years with the Revere Copper Co.: A Paper Read at the Stockholders' Meeting Held on Monday 24 March 1890." by S.Y. Snow, 16.



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