The story of the Thirty-Third N. Y. S. Vols / or two years campaigning in Virginia and Maryland

by David Wright Judd

CAPTAIN EDWARD E. ROOT,

Co. I, was born in Washington County, August 24th 1839. Removed at an early age to Yates County. After spending several years, at the Prattsburg Academy and Rochester Commercial College, he became employed in the Stationery House of George R. Cornwell, Penn Yan, as confidential clerk. Was elected First Lieutenant of Co. I, on its organization, and promoted to Captain, December 27th, 1861. He received a severe wound in the left thigh while leading his Company in the charge on Marye’s Heights. For several weeks his life was despaired of, but after lying two months in the hospital, he recovered sufficiently to return home.